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Book Launch: ‘Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine’ by Professor Chris Cook
We warmly invite you to celebrate the launch of Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine: Scientific and Theological Perspectives by our Co-Investigator Professor Chris Cook at Prior’s Hall (Durham Cathedral) on Thursday 17 January 2019, 6-8pm.
The ice in voices: Understanding negative content in auditory-verbal hallucinations
In this new article, authors explore the complexities of negative content in auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH), taking into account its theoretical and clinical importance…
Recent posts
Response to ‘Aligning Computational Psychiatry to the Hearing Voices Movement’: Akiko Hart
Akiko Hart responds to a recent paper by Powers, Bien & Corlett (2018), which presents computational psychiatry (CP) in relation to hearing voices as a way of bridging the gap between critical and biological psychiatry, and ‘honoring the values and goals of those with lived experience of psychosis’.
Being silent isn’t being strong – ManHealth release powerful videos to help men with depression
ManHealth – a new charity in the North-East that supports men with depression – have released a series of videos written by David Napthine to encourage discussion of male mental health.
Learning to live with hearing voices: an article for the British Medical Journal by Emily Knoll
Emily Knoll (author of Emily’s Voices) has recently had an article published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on therapeutic interventions…
Crossing the (B)order of Immersion: Phantasmal Intersubjectivity, Co-Presence and the Emersivity of Literary Characters (23 May, Durham)
We are delighted to draw your attention to the next Inventions of the Text seminar, which will take place on 23 May (5:30PM) in the Seminar Room at Hallgarth House. This session is part of a wider series of seminars run by the Department of English Studies at Durham University and will feature Marco Bernini (Hearing the Voice).
THEMSELVES HERE TOGETHER: a preview of Helen Shaddock’s new exhibition (10 May)
Join artist Helen Shaddock for the preview of her latest installation: THEMSELVES HERE TOGETHER.
Mental Health Action Week 2018 (Launchpad North Tyneside)
As an alternative to Mental Health Awareness Week, Launchpad North Tyneside are coordinating Mental Health Action Week. Between 14 May and 20 May, North Tyneside will play host to a week of free ‘actions’.
Launch Event for Wake: a New Poetry Collection by Gillian Allnutt (Durham, 23 May)
When Gillian Allnutt was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Carol Ann Duffy wrote that her work ‘has always been in conversation with the natural world and the spiritual life’. Her latest collection, wake, shows the two beginning to meld into one: to speak for, even as, one another…
Hearing Soundless Voices: a Grammatical Analysis of Verbal Hallucinations (May 31)
Hearing the Voice warmly invites you to attend a public lecture by Mathieu Frerejouan (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne) on May 31 (5-7PM) at Palace Green Library.
