Health Agency | Behavioral Health

Journey of Hope

An increasing amount of research suggests that adverse life events can have a powerful impact on the origins and maintenance of voice hearing. This lecture draws on the presenter’s own experience of hearing voices, as well as recent empirical and clinical findings, to demonstrate how making sense of voice(s) content and context may help promote healing and recovery. Resources are provided for possible ways of interpreting the emotional representations that can be embodied by voices. In addition, information is presented in regards to the work of the International Hearing Voices Movement, a survivor-led initiative that aims to support voice hearers, reduce stigma and prejudice, and promote positive alliances between experts by experience (voice hearers, their friends, and family members) and experts by profession (clinicians and researchers).