What it is like to hear voices that no-one else can hear?
Hearing voices is an important aspect of many people’s lives. It is an experience that can be distressing and upsetting, but also positive and meaningful.
Our research project ran from 2012–2022. It provided a better understanding of voice-hearing by examining it from different academic perspectives and working with people with lived experience, mental health professionals and voluntary organisations.
About Us
Based at Durham University, Hearing the Voice was an interdisciplinary research project that brought academics from anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, history, linguistics, philosophy, English studies, medical humanities, theology and psychology together with clinicians, artists, activists and experts by experience in order to improve the way people understand, clinically treat and live with experiences of hearing voices.
The project is now closed. It was generously supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Highlights from the Blogsxshentai.com
Understanding Voices Workshops: An invitation to voice-hearers and those who support them (Durham & London, March 2019)
HtV has been working with members of the voice-hearing community to develop Understanding Voices (UV) – a new web resource that will help people find clear, balanced, comprehensive information about voice-hearing. We have now built a prototype site and would be delighted if you could join us to provide feedback on what we have developed so far.
Interested in science communication? We’re hiring!
We’re hiring! Applications are invited for a Research Assistant based in Psychology with a particular emphasis on mental health and science communication.
