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Call for Participants: Age and Unusual Perceptions
Hearing voices and seeing visions is not a topic of everyday conversation. Many people do not realise that around 1 in 20 of us will experience unusual perceptions at some point in our lives. But do these experiences change as we age? If you are aged 18-30 or 60-75, we’d like to invite you to take part in our study on age and unusual experiences.
read moreNew Publication: ‘On Shame and Voice-hearing’ by Angela Woods
Hearing the Voice was delighted to see the publication of our co-director Dr Angela Woods’s article ‘On shame and voice-hearing’ in the journal Medical Humanities earlier this month. The article is available to read freely online here.
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Beckfest 2017
Hearing the Voice team member Dr Guy Dodgson reflects on the themes of this year’s Beckfest in Vancouver. Beckfest is an annual conference for people who are developing and trialling interventions for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Psychosis
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New Publication: ‘Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices’ by Corinne Saunders and Charles Fernyhough
Announcing a new article by Corinne Saunders and Charles Fernyhough exploring Margery Kempe’s inner voices, and how the richness of her multi-sensory experience is illuminated by and illuminates the experience of contemporary voice-hearers, offering a powerful alternative perspective to reductive bio-medical understandings of the phenomenon.
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Oxford Unusual Experiences Peer Support Group, May-July 2017
If you hear voices or have other unusual experiences and live in the Oxford area, you might be interested in this peer support group facilitated by Katie de Bertrand.
Please note that the group now runs on Tuesdays instead of Wednesdays.
‘Why Did I Go Mad?’ A BBC Two Horizon special on psychosis
What is psychosis and why does it occur? This was the focus of the latest episode of the BBC’s flagship documentary series Horizon, ‘Why Did I Go Mad?’ (2 May 2017, BBC Two, 9pm). A number of our researchers met with the Horizon editorial team to provide advice on the content of the programme late last year, and after the excitement of filming in Durham in January, it was great to finally see the result.
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‘Speak, Lord: thy servant heareth’ by Professor Chris Cook
In the first of a three-part series on hearing voices for Church Times, Hearing the Voice’s Professor Chris Cook explores representations of voice-hearing in the Christian tradition.
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Call for Participants: Age and Unusual Perceptions
Hearing voices and seeing visions is not a topic of everyday conversation. Many people do not realise that around 1 in 20 of us will experience unusual perceptions at some point in our lives. But do these experiences change as we age? If you are aged 18-30 or 60-75, we’d like to invite you to take part in our study on age and unusual experiences.
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‘Can’t You Hear Them? The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices’ by Simon McCarthy-Jones
Hearing the Voice is delighted to announce the publication of HtV team member Simon McCarthy-Jones’s new book ‘Can’t You Hear Them? The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices’. The book is a must-read for anyone with an interest in the links between trauma and voice-hearing, our biology and voice-hearing, and those looking for a critical perspective on traditional ways of approaching voice-hearing.
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New Publication: ‘On Shame and Voice-hearing’ by Angela Woods
Hearing the Voice was delighted to see the publication of our co-director Dr Angela Woods’s article ‘On shame and voice-hearing’ in the journal Medical Humanities earlier this month. The article is available to read freely online here.
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