Featured posts
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...
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.
Recent posts
‘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.
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.
‘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.
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.
A review of ‘Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday’ by Safia Aslam
Safia Aslam is the co-facilitator of a peer support group for people who hear voices in Warrington. In this blog post, she shares her reaction to our recent exhibition Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday.
Young Adult Support Cafe with Chris Affleck, Durham’s Waddington Street Centre, every Tuesday from 5pm – 7pm.
From 12 July 2017, The Waddington Street Centre will be offering a young adult support cafe for people aged 16 – 21. All are welcome.
Open Art Studio with Craig Rundle, Waddington Street Centre, Durham, every Tuesday from 6pm – 8pm.
The Waddington Street Centre, Durham, are hosting open art sessions every Tuesday evening from 6pm – 8pm to promote wellbeing. All are welcome.
An invitation to voice-hearers, researchers and clinicians: Arts project by Helen Shaddock
Newcastle based artist Helen Shaddock seeks voice-hearers, as well as academics and clinicians with an interest in unusual experiences, to participate in a new arts project exploring auditory verbal hallucinations.
