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‘Inner Voices’: Hearing the Voice in the Guardian
Hearing the Voice is delighted to draw our readers’ attention to ‘Inner Voices’ – a series of blog posts and short articles on voice-hearing and related issues published online by the Guardian. Written by Hearing the Voice researchers, the articles in the series explore the scientific, philosophical and literary aspects of hearing voices
Recent posts
An invitation to voice-hearers: Reflections on ‘Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday’, Tuesday 21 February 2017, from 5-7pm.
After an exhilarating four months, the final week of ‘Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration, and the everyday’ is almost upon us. We warmly invite voice-hearers, their families, friends and allies to join us for a final viewing and to share reflections on the exhibition and its linked programme of events at Palace Green Library on Tuesday 21 February 2017, from 5-7pm. Wine, soft drinks and light refreshments will be provided.
‘Uncharted Features and Dynamics of Reading: Voices, Characters and Crossings of Experiences’, February 2017
Systematic studies of experiences of reading are few and far between. In 2014, Hearing the Voice researchers collaborated with the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Guardian in order investigate how readers hear (or don’t hear) the voices of characters when they read. The studies findings have now been published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition and are available to read freely online.
‘Spirituality and Mental Health Conference,’ The Business School at the University of Huddersfield, 11 July 2017, 9:30-4:30pm.
This one day conference on spirituality and mental health is designed for health and social care professionals, community and voluntary sector workers, experts of experience, and carers.
“A Disorder for Everyone!” – Exploring the culture of psychiatric diagnosis, creating change. With Dr Lucy Johnstone and Jo Watson; March and June 2017, Bristol, Edinburgh and London.
This one day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event is intended for psychologists, counsellors, service users, psychotherapists, mental health support professionals, psychiatrists, people with lived experience, managers and individuals with a personal interest.
‘In The Real’ screening and discussion at the Freud Museum London, 23 March 2017, from 7 – 8:30pm.
The Freud Museum London warmly welcome you to join them for a screening and discussion of the documentary film ‘In The Real.’
‘It’s important to listen to imaginary voices – just ask Virginia Woolf’ by Pat Waugh.
Novels allow us to listen in and to learn political, ethical as well as cognitive lessons about what goes on as our mind continues the endless dialogue with itself that is living.
‘Psychosis, Agency, and Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Workshop’ at The College of St Hild & St Bede, 15 February 2017, from 9:30 – 17:20.
Hallucinations can undermine the intuition that we are the ones controlling our own thoughts and actions. This one-day workshop examines the theme of lost agency from a number of disciplinary perspectives, with a view to exploring how conceptions of agency in different disciplines might be productively related.
New podcast: Professor Patricia Waugh on ‘Experimenting with Voices: Virginia Woolf’s fiction as a risky kind of life writing’
This podcast features HtV co-applicant and British Academy Fellow Professor Patricia Waugh on ‘Experimenting with Voices: Virginia Woolf’s fiction as a risky kind of life writing’. It was recorded at our public symposium on Literary Minds at St Chad’s College, Durham University on 21 January 2017 – part of the linked programme of events associated with Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday.
