Featured posts
Literary Voices: Edinburgh International Book Festival, 18–20 August 2018
How do writers experience the voices of the characters they create? How do their readers? Do you hear different voices for different characters? Have you ever experienced those characters saying things beyond the pages of a book? Hearing the Voice is delighted to...
New Project Shorts Published on Working Knowledge
Interdisciplinary research: intermittently theorised, frequently funded, increasingly valorised. But how is it actually done? We’re delighted to announce the publication of four new Project Shorts as part of Working Knowledge, an HtV-run website dedicated to the practical ins and outs of interdisciplinary research…
Recent posts
Everyday Life With Voices: A request from Elisabeth Svanholmer and Rufus May
Elisabeth Svanholmer writes: We are looking for contributors to a new online resource about hearing things that others don’t.
The Mental Health Act: A Human Rights Perspective (27 April)
On Friday 27 April, the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) invites you to join them in exploring the mental health act from a human rights perspective.
Call for Papers: Twenty-five years of Madness and Modernism (11 May)
A symposium to celebrate, interrogate and reflect upon the significance and wide-ranging influence of Madness and Modernism will be held at Durham University on Friday 11 May 2018, featuring Louis Sass in conversation with Patricia Waugh.
Call for Review: ‘It’s All in My Head!’ by Mick
We are delighted to offer ‘It’s All in my Head!’ by Mick (2018) for review…
Charles Fernyhough at the British Museum: Reading Margery Kempe’s Inner Voices (9 March)
Charles Fernyhough (Director of Hearing the Voice) will be giving a lecture at the British Museum on 9 March about the fifteenth-century English mystic Margery Kempe…
Cognitive Neuroscience Tapping Inner Language: Prediction and Perception (22 March 2018)
On Thursday 22 March, Dr Hélène Loevenbruck (Laboratory of Psychology and NeuroCognition, Université Grenoble Alpes) will be giving a public lecture on ‘Cognitive neuroscience tapping inner language: prediction and perception’…
Emily’s Voices: A Review by Berta Britz
Berta Britz is an experienced facilitator of Hearing Voices Network Groups, a board member of HVN-USA, and recipient of the “Inspiration Intervoice Award”. In this post, Berta shares her reflections on Emily’s Voices, a thought-provoking memoir that charts Emily’s struggles with voice-hearing and her journey through the mental health system…
Integrated Voices Consultation Events, Bradford & London, 31 Jan & 7 February 2018
In October 2017, we held a series of consultation events in Bradford, London and Newcastle in order to gather views on how to make our new web resource, Integrated Voices, as useful as possible. We are now holding two more events in Bradford and London, where we’d particularly like to hear from voice-hearers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and the families, friends and professionals who support them.
