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
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.
New podcast: Professor Tanya Luhrmann on ‘The Voice of God’
If you missed Professor Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford University Department of Anthropology) on ‘The Voice of God’ on 16 February 2017, you can catch up by listening to this podcast.
