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AVATAR therapy trial results published in The Lancet Psychiatry
The Lancet Psychiatry has today published the results of a clinical trial by Tom Craig and colleagues at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) into AVATAR therapy, with commentary from Hearing the Voice’s Ben Alderson-Day.
Developing support for young people who hear voices in the North-East: Courses by Rai Waddingham (Darlington, January 2018)
HtV friend and collaborator Rai Waddingham launches new initiative in the North East, providing training and support for young people who hear voices and their supporters.
Recent posts
Jon Ronson’s Psychopath Night with very special guests, Newcastle upon Tyne, Saturday 11 November 2017, 8pm
Our great friend and collaborator Dr Eleanor Longden will be joining Jon Ronson in Newcastle upon Tyne this November for ‘Jon Ronson’s Psychopath Night with very special guests’ (The Tyne Theatre and Opera House, 11 November 2017, 8pm).
Integrated Voices – Can you help us create a resource for people who hear voices and those who support them?
Rai Waddingham, who is a member of the editorial board for our new project Integrated Voices, writes: In my experience, at least, the availability of information on the internet can bring with it both opportunities and risks. To someone hearing voices for the first...
Welcoming Dr Åsa Jansson to the Hearing the Voice team
A warm welcome to Åsa Jansson who joins the team as Junior Research Fellow with Durham’s Centre for Medical Humanities and Hearing the Voice.
‘Of Theories and Visions’ by Adam Powell
Adam Powell explores ‘identity dissonance’ and emotional motivations in bio-cultural models of religious experience.
Postpartum Psychosis: A consultation
Postpartum psychosis, including voices, paranoia or extreme states experienced during or following pregnancy or birth, remains an extraordinarily under-researched and misunderstood topic. The voice of women with first hand experiences are particularly...
Our new paper – how voice-hearers can detect speech in unusual sounds
Last week we were delighted to share the results of our new study in Brain, "Distinct processing of ambiguous speech in people with non-clinical auditory verbal hallucinations". The study, which was a collaboration between Hearing the Voice and Sophie Scott's Speech...
Response roundup to Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
“The most realistic portrayal of mental illness I’ve yet seen in a video game”. Last week saw the release of Ninja Theory’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, a new game on PS4 and PC that attempts to simulate some of the experiences associated with psychosis. We round up the reviews here and explain how HtV contributed to its development.
HtV’s Angela Woods wins Intervoice Research Award 2017
We are thrilled to announce that Hearing the Voice Co-Director Angela Woods has been awarded the 2017 Intervoice Research Award at the 9th World Hearing Voices Congress in Boston.
