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PRESS RELEASE AND
DETAILS FOR
WORLD HEARING VOICES DAY
INTERVOICE
International
Network for training, education
and research into Hearing
Voices |
World Hearing Voices Day:
Thursday, 14th September
2006
Is hearing voices part of an illness or a human
variation
that does not have to result in illness?
Introduction
Have
you ever heard a voice that seemed real to you when there was no
apparent
external cause?
The international hearing voices movement knows many
people who have. Unfortunately, most people who hear voices keep it
to
themselves - in our society it’s a very stigmatising experience and
people
automatically assume you must be crazy if you say you hear voices.
For
this reason we have decided to hold our first World Hearing Voices
Day as
a way of both celebrating this variation in human experience and to
counter the secrecy and negative stereotyping surrounding this way of
being.
Beginnings
In
November last year, Louise Pembroke, a voice hearer and psychiatric
survivor from England proposed that INTERVOICE (The International
Network
for Training, Education and Research into Hearing Voices) should hold
its
own World Hearing Voices Day to:
celebrate the hearing of voices as part of the
diversity
of human experience and increase awareness of the fact you can hear
voices
and be healthy
challenge negative attitudes towards people who
hear
voices or the incorrect assumption that this is in itself a sign of
an
illness, an assumption made about them that is not based on their own
experiences, is stigmatising, isolating and makes people ill
raise
awareness of the issues facing the estimated 4% of women, men and
children
who hear voices across the world
For a mostly unfunded network this was a challenge
indeed,
but one that has been taken up by our members with energy and
creativity
and has resulted in an impressive array of events and activities that
are
being held in 14 countries across the world - from Australia to
Finland.
See below for further details about the events we are holding.
Aims
The theme
of
the World Hearing Voices Day addresses whether hearing voices should
be
considered an illness or as part of the diversity of human experience
that
does not in itself have to result in an illness.
Jacqui Dillon, Chair of the English Hearing Voices
Network
said:
“I have been a voice hearer since I was a small child
as a
consequence of serious abuse that I experienced throughout my
childhood.
My own experiences within mental health services were so damaging and
negative that I was passionate about improving services so that they
would
be helpful to people in mental distress rather than hindering them.
When I
joined the Network I saw a powerful means of making change, which
enabled
voice hearers to reclaim their experiences and the Hearing Voices
Network
has enabled me to make changes in my world and to become part of a
collective voice for change. For someone who was told that she would
never
recover, life could not be better!”
In announcing the World Hearing Voices Day, The
President
of INTERVOICE, Dutch psychiatrist, Professor Marius Romme said:
“Because of the fears and misunderstandings in
society and
within psychiatry about hearing voices, they are generally regarded
as a
symptom of an illness, something that is negative, to be got rid of
and
consequently the content and meaning of the voice experience is
rarely
discussed.
In contrast, our work and research has shown that
over 70%
of people who hear voices can point to a traumatic life event that
triggered their voices; that talking about voices and what they mean
is a
very effective way to reduce anxiety and isolation; and that even
when the
voices are overwhelming and seemingly destructive they often have an
important message for the hearer. With the support of the worldwide
hearing voices network, voice hearers, some of whom have spent long
periods of time in psychiatric care have reclaimed their lives and
are now
able to say they hear voices and accept them as part of themselves.
Our journey to better understand the voice hearing experience
has
now been going on for almost twenty years and we thought this would
be a
good time to celebrate our achievements and to make our work better
known
across the world.”
This research and work on hearing voices represents a
real
challenge to the current understanding of the voice hearing
experience,
provides a message of hope and the possibility of recovery from
serious
mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Building on success
In the build up to the first World Hearing Voices
day a
3 day international conference was held in Manchester UK on the 6th,
7th
and 8th of September. During the course of this highly successful
event,
three major initiatives were presented:
1) The announcement of
World
Hearing Voices Day on September 14th
2)
The
launch of CASL: The campaign for the abolition of the schizophrenia
label.
3) The formation of a European
Association for Democratic Psychiatry (also to be known as the
International Association for Democratic Communities.)
The conference had been called to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of Asylum: an international magazine for democratic
psychiatry, psychology, education and community development. It was
also
the 15th anniversary of the Hearing Voices Network: a network of
self-help
groups which has transformed the understanding of mental experience
and
provided for recovery from psychotic conditions.
Julie Downs speaking for the Hearing Voices Network
said:
“The research started by Marius Romme and Sandra Escher
twenty
years ago in the Netherlands is now accepted and developed in the
mainstream throughout the world. It suggests that hearing voices is a
human variation that does not need to result in an illness. Social
presumptions about hearing voices are negative and are not based on
the
experience of voice hearers. These assumptions are stigmatizing,
isolating
and offer no hope of recovery, therefore making people ill. Members
of
hearing voices networks in at least fourteen different countries are
organising events on September 14th to open a public debate.
Paul Hammersley from the University of Manchester
stated:
“The concept of Schizophrenia has outlived its usefulness. It has
become scientifically worthless, is neither valid nor reliable and
tells
us nothing about cause, prognosis or suitable treatment options for
individual service users. Worse still, it is a highly stigmatizing
diagnostic category that labels individuals as chronically ill,
potentially violent and beyond hope, none of which are true. This
‘label’
is not only unhelpful in our understanding of psychological distress,
but
actually harmful and reduces people’s chance of recovery. The
Japanese
Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, under pressure from users and
families groups recognised this fact in 2002 and formally abandoned
the
concept of schizophrenia, recognising that it was associated with
deep
rooted negative prejudice and the inhumane treatment of those with
this
diagnosis. The new term `Togo shitcho sho’ (Integration disorder),
has
been welcomed by both service users and professionals. There are now
ample
reasons for starting a public debate towards a more reasonable use of
language in the UK.”
Editor of Asylum, community psychologist Dr Terence
McLaughlin added: “The commentator Jonathan Freedland was right to
suggest
that we are on the verge of the last great civil rights movement. In
fact
the time is now ripe to put an end to what we have come to call
psychophobia. The practical and theoretical knowledge and above all
the
independent community resources are available to put in place real
democratic processes. Furthermore this same call is being heard from
all
around the world. The new international association will be open
equally
to both `experts by experience’ and `experts by training’. It will
herald
a new beginning by bringing together international energies for
positive
change.”
Further information can
be
obtained from:
info@hearing-voices.org
paul.hammersley@manchester.ac.uk
t
erence.mclaughlin@asylumonline.net
Information about
INTERVOICE
INTERVOICE aims to:
- show that hearing voices is a normal though unusual variation
in
human behaviour
- show that the problem is not hearing voices but the inability
to
cope with the experience
- educate society about the meaning of voices so as to reduce
ignorance & anxiety and to ensure this innovatory approach on
voice
hearing is better known by voice hearers, families, professionals
and
the general public
- demonstrate the wide variety of voice hearing experiences and
their
origins, and peoples' approaches to coping
- increase the quality and quantity of mutual support available
to all
people and organisations involved in hearing voices work across the
world
- make our work more effective and develop more non-medical ways
of
helping voice hearers cope with their experience
For more information re. Voice hearing and/or
organising
interviews with experts by experience (voice hearers) and experts by
training (psychologists, psychiatrists etc) please contact Paul
Baker,
coordinator INTERVOICE, email: 965263097@terra.es
World Hearing Voices Day Events
 Participating
Countries
Events
details
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activities
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Participating
Countries:
More than 40 events and other activities to
celebrate
World Hearing Voices Day are being held on and around the 14th
September
in 14 different countries:
Austria
Australia
Denmark
England
Finland
Germa
ny
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New
Zealand
Scotland
Sweden
Switzerland
United States of
America
Wales
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Events details:
Austria:
Date: 14 September 2006:
Title: All-Austrian
seminar
for and by voice hearers and then a reading from an Austrian author -
Brigitte Schwaiger.
Description: All-Austrian seminar for and by
voice
hearers and then a reading from an Austrian author - Brigitte
Schwaiger.
Ms Schwaiger wrote a very popular book in the late 70's that has
become
part of the Austrian canon and is therefore well known in Austria and
in
Germany. She has written a new book about her experience a
psychiatric
patient and voice hearer. This book will be coming out this month.
She has
agreed to do a reading from this new book in cooperation with our
project
and the local library. We are sure that this reading will attract a
lot of
attention in the media. For more information email:
stimmen@exitsozial.at
Australia:
Date: 14 September 2006:
Title: Picnic to
celebrate
World Hearing Voices Day
Description: As part of a worldwide
initiative, the Hearing Voices Network Australia joins international
groups in their efforts to mark this day by holding a picnic and
increasing awareness of the voice hearing experience. For more
information
see the poster at
http://www.rfwa.org.au/upfile/World%20HV%20day%20Sep%2006.pdf
England:
Date: 5th September 2006:
Title: Hearing
Voices
Day Celebration: With guest speaker Peter Bullimore from the Paranoia
Network/Hearing Voices Network will be talking about how he regained
control of his life. 10.00 – 14.00 at the Meadowbrook, Recreation
Room,
Salford.
For further information contact 0161 772 3761 email:
jamiebarsky@bstmht.nhs.uk
Date: 6th – 8th September 2006:
Title “Stories of
Hearing Voices: Restoring human experience to communities”: Three day
conference, see programme on http://www.asylumonline.net/. For more
information contact asylumonline@ntlworld.com
Date: 14th September 2006:
Title: World Hearing
Voices
Day Parade with music and a social evening, everyone is invited to
assemble at 17.00 in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. Raffle of
beautiful
colourful poppy quilt made by Kathy Lee (see below for more details).
For
more information contact info@hearing-voices.org telephone
08451228641
www.hearing-voices.org
Date: 14th September 2006:
Title: World Hearing
Voices
Picnic in Hyde Park, London. An opportunity to talk about life as a
voice
hearer, to chill out in the sun and to share a picnic. For more
information contact Jacqui Dillon at 0207911 0822
Date: 14 September 2006:
Title: World Hearing
Voices
Celebration and Information Day: A video about hearing voices will be
screened and information about the experience available. Refreshments
will
be served over lunchtime. Mind Day Centre, Hardy Street, Worksop,
Nottingham. 10.00 to 15.00. For more information contact 01909 502001
or
01909 712231
Date: 14 September 2006:
Title: World Hearing
Voices
Celebration and Awareness Day: Event included free information on
hearing
voices, a book stall with many discounted books, a video
presentation,
T-shirts for sale and the opportunity to talk to voice hearers who
have
learnt to live with their voices. To be held at the Limbrick Centre,
Limbrick Road, Sheffield, S6 2PE. For more information contact Peter
Bullimore on 0114 2718210 / 07775977210or Peter Cawley on
07775977210
Date: 14 September 2006: Title: Learning how to
communicate with people who experience psychosis – psychological
approaches to hearing voices led by Mark Heywood followed by a
performance
of “Dedication to the Seven” by Louise Pembroke.
Details: Workshop to be held at the 6th Annual
Training
and Education Conference: Training and Education for Delivering
Psychological Therapies, ORT House Conference Centre, London. For
more
information contact: info@pavpub.com
Date: 14th and the 16th September 2006:
Title:
Launch
of the Wolverhampton Hearing Voices Group: A new hearing voices group
(there are now over 160 in the UK) is being launched to coincide with
the
World Hearing Voices Day. Events will be taking place on the 14th
September at the Wulfrun Centre and on the 16th September in the
Queen’s
Square. For more information contact: Liz or Jayne on 01902
715871
Date: 15th September 2006:
Title: “Survivor
activism in action” …in support of World Hearing Voices Day,
co-facilitated by Louise Pembroke and Sara Stanton. 13.30am – 14.30,
Edgware Community, Hospital, Edgware, Middlesex HA8 0AD. For
more
information contact hearingvoicescamden@yahoo.co.uk and to
confirm
your place email Ingrid Barre at ingrid.barre@beh-mht.nhs.uk Tel:
020-8951-2156
Date: 21st September 2006:
Title: Meet Nancy
Mellor
author of “Schizophrenia: Exploding the myth”.
19.00,
Waterstones,
Albion Street, Leeds, sponsored by Asylum Associates, the event is
free,
tickets from the shop. www.asylumonline.net
Finland:
Date: 14 September 2006:
Title: There is a
seminar
being held in Helsinki to celebrate the World Hearing Voices Day. For
further details contact moniaaniset.ry@kolumbus.fi or telephone
+358408309663
Denmark:
Date: 14th September 2006:
Title: International
stemmehører dag i Aarhus 2006, to be held at Lokalpsykiatri Centrum,
Kanikkegade 12, 8000 Aarhus C. For more information contact:
www.hearingvoices.dk
Germany:
Date: 11th of September 2006:
Title: Press
Conference
to launch new book by voice hearer Hannelore Klafke (3.9.1952 -
4.9.2005).
Peter Lehmann Publishing has organized a press conference for the new
book
by Hannelore Klafki (3.9.1952 - 4.9.2005) Meine Stimmen – Quälgeister
und
Schutzengel. Texte einer engagierten Stimmenhörerin in which she
talks
about her experiences with her voices (see publications in this
forum).
Peter will also talk about the World Hearing Voices Day. The book
will be
published on the 14th of September to coincide with WHVD. For
more
information contact + 49 (0)30 8596 3706 Mo – Fr 10.00 – 16.00
(central
European time) or email info@peter-lehmann-publishing.com
Date: 14th of September 2006:
In Frankfurt and in
Berlin there will be World Hearing Voices Day information booths. All
members of the German HV Network were informed about the day through
a
letter and there is information on the website homepage. A letter was
sent
to the Federal president, the health minister, the mayor of Berlin,
and
the local health minister for Berlin to inform them of the day and
ask for
support. A press release has been sent to 25 newspapers and journals
and
they have contacted radio and TV station, some have already answered
and
are interested in publishing articles. For more information contact
stimmenhoeren@gmx.de
Italy:
Date: 14 September 2006:
Giornata Mondiale Uditore
Di
Voci to be held at the Casa Della Cultura, Firenza (Florence), Via
Forlanini, 164.
All day seminar from 10.00 – 16.30 with
presentations
by Donatella Miccinesi on the progress of the progress of Hearing
Voices
Groups; Pino Pini on the theoretical and practical differences in
contrasting the work of Kraepelin (who developed the concept of
schizophrenia) and Marius Romme who developed the work on hearing
voices.
Also presentations by voice hearer’s Consuelo Rossi, Salvatore
Cesario and
Guiliana Missio on their personal experience of hearing voices. For
more
information contact: Telephone: 3285493504 or email
romatur@libero.it
Japan:
Date: 9th September 2006
A local Hearing Voices
meeting
with a symposium was held in Okayama city last Saturday, 9th
September
2006. This was linked directly with the WHV Day on the 14th. 32
people got
together at the meeting. W.Sato presented an outline of the hearing
voices
ideas and approaches, 2 voice hearers and another person with a
delusion
of reference presented their life stories with hearing voices or
delusions, all of which were moving. Lastly, a psychiatrist using
holistic
medicine learnt from the Hearing Voices approach presented his
experiences. Among the 32 attendants, 21 were newcomers all of whom
but
one voice hearer were parents and care workers. The event was
advertised
in a local newspaper covering Okayama and neighborhood prefectures.
We had
enthusiastic Q&As and very good discussions.
Date: 14h
September
2006
A group of community mental health care named Foo in Ibaragi
prefecture is planning a meeting on 14th September with their users
hearing voices as a programme of one of their groups called
"Information
Explorers".
23rd September 2006
The Suita Voice Hearers Group
in
Osaka prefecture is going to have their regular meeting on 23rd
September.
They are expecting that information from the worldwide events marking
the
WHV Day will stimulate them and their worldwide voice hearing
fellows.
Netherlands:
Date: 14 September 2006:
Open Day to celebrate
World
Hearing Voices Day organised by Weerklank to be held at Brandpunt,
Oude
Utrechtseweg 4 te Baarn. Starts 11.00, speakers include Jan Dirk Blom
(author of ‘Deconstructing schizophrenia’) and Iwona Smoctunowicz.
For
further information contact e-mail: ejacobson56@hotmail.com
Date: 14 September:
A day full of presentations
about
hearing voices between 11.00 en 16.00 organised by A.C. van der
Kallen, a
voice hearer who has never been a patient, The meeting will be held
at
Escheweg 75, -5262 TV VUGHT Nrd.Brabant. For more information
contact:
a.c.vanderkallen@neuro-linguistisch-support.nl
Date: 14 September:
Suzanne Engelen, Dirk
Corsten and Sandra Escher will give presentations for students at the
Maastricht University at 20.00 hours. For further information contact
Suzanne Engelen; sp.engelen@home.nl
Scotland:
Date: 14 September 2006:
Title: World Hearing
Voices
Day: Description: To mark the first World Hearing Voices Day,
Pillar
is holding an Information and awareness afternoon for Voice hearers,
families, carers and professionals. Voice Hearers hope to share their
experiences to increase understanding. All welcome! 14 Sep 2006, Time
1pm—4 pm, Venue Pillar Aberdeen, 20 Back Wynd, Aberdeen, AB10 1JP.
Tel:
(01224) 621266 / 642854, E-mail: info@pillaraberdeen.co.uk
Visit :
www.pillaraberdeen.co.uk
New Zealand
Date: 14th September: 2006
Title: Hearing Voices
Forum:
Description: A Forum with speakers presenting on the experience of
hearing
voices from cultural, spiritual and clinical perspectives. Hear about
different perspectives on the experience of hearing voices; Meet
other
voice-hearers and share experiences over a light supper; Discuss
ideas for
the establishment of a NZ Hearing Voices Network. All welcome,
voice-hearers, their friends and families, researchers and
clinicians. Ron
Coleman from the Scottish Hearing Voices Network will speak about the
establishment of this organisation and encourage discussion on the
setting
up of a Hearing Voices Network in New Zealand. 17.30 - 20.00 at: Leys
Institute, 20 St Marys Road, Ponsonby, Auckland (parking at back of
building, off Dedwood Tce)
Sweden:
Date: 14 September 2006:
Title: A World Hearing
Voices
Day Celebration will be held in Sodertalje (just south of Stockholm).
For
more information contact: Anneli Westling at
anneli.westling@levnu.se
Date: 12 - 14 September 2006:
Title: A World
Hearing
Voices Day Celebration will be held in Umea. From the 12th, there
will be
an information stand outside the library in the city centre, about
the
World Hearing Voices Day; about InterVoice; about the Hearing Voices
Movement; and about the open meetings for voice hearers in Umea.
There
will also be a poster with the INTERVOICE logo and the program for
the
14th. (posters will be put up throughout the city) On the 14th
September
from 11.00 to 15.00 we will also put up an information stand and
table, at
the same place as before, with books, articles, essays etc. Some
information leaflets can also be handed out. Hopefully there will be
some
voice hearers present and available for people to ask questions and
discuss issues. Some of the hosts from our meetings (some work within
psychiatry, some in social psychiatry and some in consumer
organisations)
will also be there.
And in the evening, 6 p.m., two films will be shown
by the
user organisation RSMH: First a documentary and afterwards "Field of
Dreams" There will also be room to ask questions and discuss
experiences.
There will also be celebration of the day in
Skelleftea.
They will have their activity house open 5-7 p.m., so that people can
come
there to get information and coffee for free.
For more information contact Kristina Lindgren at
Kristina.Lindgren@uh24.ac.se
Switzerland:
Date: 14th September 2006:
Title and description:
The
Swiss Hearing Voices Network will be holding a debate and conference
entitled Entendre des Voix: Faut-il s’en inquiéter? …Speakers
include:
Professeur Gilles BERTSCHY Service de
psychiatrie adultes HUG.
Monsieur Eric
MERCIER &n
bsp;
Témoignage
M. François
LEDERMANN
Thérapeute, philosophe, Président du R.E.E.V.
To be held at 20.00, Maison des Associations, 15 rue
des
Savoises, Salle Gandhi,
Geneve. For more information contact
.E.E.V,
C.P. 235, 1211 GENEVE 17, Tél. 022 – 346 48
21
(morning)
United States of America:
Dates to be determined:
Title: “How to facilitate a voice hearing group” and
“How
to successfully appeal the decisions of your managed care provider”
hosted
by the Madison Hearing Voices Group. For more information
contact
jennybranks@hotmail.com
Other actitivities:
Worldwide:
Raffle of beautiful colourful poppy quilt (67” by
82”)
made by Kathy Lee. Tickets are £1.00 and are available from Kathy
Lee, 79
Chiltern Avenue, Northampton, NN5 6AU.
Competition: To commemorate the World Hearing Voices
Day
the Hearing Voices Network: Cymru is holding a competition open to
anyone
in the world. To enter the competition answer the following
question.
What was the name of psychiatric illness given to any
black slave who ran away from their “duties” thereby exhibiting an
“excessive” desire for freedom?
Was the psychiatric “illness”
known
as:
Anorexia nervosa?
Bulimia?
Drapetomania
Answers on a postcard or a sealed down envelop,
giving
your name and address and telephone number. Send your answer by 1st
November to: World Hearing Voices Day Competition 2006 (Cymru).
Hearing
voices Network Cymru, Upper Robeston. Robeston West, Milford Haven,
Pembrokeshire. SA73 3TL. The winner of the competition will receive
the
excellent, thought provoking American DVD “What the bleep do we
know”, the
2 hour DVD deals with the theme of quantum physics and spirituality,
implying in an entertaining, clear and effective manner that there is
a
reality beyond time and space.
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World
Hearing Voices T-Shirt
Wear it with pride – your own World
Hearing Voices T-Shirt in a range of colours and sizes and with a
cool
WHVD logo. Price £6.99 plus p&p. Contact Peter Bullimore, Asylum
Associates/Sheffield Hearing Voices Network at
peterbullimore@yahoo.co.uk
or phone + 44 (0)114 2728210
INTERVOICE aims
to:
- show that hearing voices is a normal though unusual variation
in
human behaviour
- show that the problem is not hearing voices but the inability
to
cope with the experience
- educate society about the meaning of voices so as to reduce
ignorance & anxiety and to ensure this innovatory approach on
voice
hearing is better known by voice hearers, families, professionals
and
the general public
- demonstrate the wide variety of voice hearing experiences and
their
origins, and peoples' approaches to coping
- increase the quality and quantity of mutual support available
to all
people and organisations involved in hearing voices work across the
world
- make our work more effective and develop more non-medical ways
of
helping voice hearers cope with their experience
For help on hearing
voices in
the UK contact:
HEARING VOICES CONFIDENTIAL HELPLINE: 0845
122
8642, 10am – 4pm Monday to Friday, calls are charged at local
rate.
Hearing Voices Network, 79 Lever Street, Manchester M1 1FL.
Enquiries and information: 0845 122 8641, Email:
info@hearing-voices.org
Website: www.hearing-voices.org,
Registered
Charity Number 1094201
For more information on the Hearing Voices Movement
go to
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_Voices_Movement
For more information on press coverage of hearing
voices
research go
to:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/mentalhealth/page/0,8149,606449,00.htm
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Publications on hearing
voices:
1. Accepting
Voices:
A New Approach to Voice-hearing Outside the Illness Model. By M.
Romme
& S. Escher. Mind,
1993.
2.
Hearing voices - A Common Human Experience by John Watkins. Hill of
Content Publishing, Melbourne, Australia,
1998.
3. Making Sense of
Voices - A
guide for professionals who work with voice hearers by M. Romme and
S.
Escher. Mind, 2000.
4. Voices
of
Reason, Voices of Insanity - Studies of Verbal Hallucinations by Ivan
Leudar and Philip Thomas. Routledge/Psychological Press,
2000.
5. Working with Voices -
Victim to Victor by Ron Coleman & Mike Smith. Handsell
Publications,
1997.
6. Hearing Voices: embodiment and experience by Lisa
Blackman.
London: Free Association Books.
7. Deconstructing Psychopathology
by
Parker, I; Harper, D; McLaughlin, T and Stowell-Smith, M. London:
Sage.
Also from the Hearing Voices Network
England:
Basic Information about Hearing Voices, Chris Stirk
and
Julie Downs, £1.85.
Medication, Dr Philip Thomas and Rufus
May.
£1.85
Starting and Supporting Hearing Voices Groups, Julie
Downs,
£6.00.
Coping With Voices and Visions written by people who
have
these experiences. £5.00.
Mind over Matter, M. Valerio £3.50.
Raising Our Voices, Adam James £8.50.
Understanding
Child
Sexual Abuse: making the tactics visible. Sam Warner
£8.50.
PAMPHLETS all £1.35
Hearing Voices: My own
experience. Mickey de Valda
Life: a humorous perspective. Jon
Williams
Hearing Voices: a description of the work of
Professor
Marius Romme on hearing voices. University of
Maastricht.
Different
Perspectives: the importance of a diversity of explanations. Paul
Baker.
Romme and Escher: The Dutch Experience. Nigel
Rose.
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Some well known voice
hearers:
Philosophers and thinkers
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Pythagoras
Emanuel Swedenborg
Descartes
Goethe
Sigmund Freud
Carl Gustav Jung
Mahatma Gandhi
Jean-Paul Sartre
Authors, musicians and creative artists
Jonathan
Swift
Cervantes
Beethoven
Robert Schumann
Mozart
Wagner
Rossini
Schopenhauer
Henri Rousseau
Byron
Chopin
Ben Johnson
Dumas
Shelly
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allen
Poe
Charles Dickens
Virginia Woolf
Evelyn Waugh
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for another twenty years |
CONFERENCE OF THE YEAR!
Organised by Asylum Associates in association with the
Discourse Unit in the Manchester Metropolitan University
September 6th, 7th and 8th 2006 Manchester UK
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS 2006 and
WORLD
HEARING VOICES DAY
Asylum magazine, The Hearing Voices
Network,
Psychology Politics Resistance Asylum Associates
“STORIES OF HEARING
VOICES”
Restoring human experience to communities
Twelfth Anniversary of the founding of Psychology
Politics
Resistance
Fifteenth Anniversary Conference of the Hearing Voices
Network
Twentieth Anniversary Celebrations of Asylum Magazine
An international meeting in the week leading up to
World Hearing Voices Day: 14th September
Performance arts, exhibitions, stalls, workshops,
presentations, seminars and the founding meeting of the European
Association for Democratic Psychiatry
(International Association
for
Democratic Communities)
Venue: the Manchester Metropolitan
University
Didsbury campus, Simon Building.
Cost:
Standard Day waged or funded: £55, part time £30, unwaged
£15
2-3 days waged or funded: £100, part time £60, unwaged £25
Day 1
Wednesday 6th: Radical Practitioners and Publications Fair
sponsored by Asylum Associates and Psychology Politics Resistance
(PPR)
PROGRAM
Registration 9.30
Healing Therapies Room open throughout the
conferences:
Co-ordinator: Carole Dugdale GWFSH Spiritual Healer.
Poet in
residence
expected: Carol Batton.
Special exhibition of the works of Crow
Holbeche, hero of the resistance to forced psychiatric treatment.
10.15 am A Welcome to
Manchester by Marie Chapman.
10.30 Press Conference:
1. World Hearing Voices Day (September 14th)
Jacqui
Dillon, Peter Bullimore, Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Julie
Downs
2. The launch of CASTLe (Campaign To Abolish the
Schizophrenia Label)
Paul Hammersley.
3. Building a
European
Association for Democratic Psychiatry and an International
Association for
Democratic Communities. Terence McLaughlin.
11.15 Radical practice in
Denmark and Norway: Jorn Erickson and Geir Frederickson
LUNCH 12 noon
Seminars and
Workshops
1pm – 4pm `Auditory and
Visual
Deleuzians’ a team of international speakers discuss what the ideas
of
Gilles Deleuze have to offer the Hearing Voices Network.
`Just Listening: A U-Turn In Response To A Call
(ethical-deconstructive therapy and networking toward an
international
community of just listeners).
Leon Redler (pioneer with R.D.Laing
of
Kingsley Hall)
Exeter Hearing Voices Network - Who we are, what we
are
about: Constructions of a hearing voices group – a discourse analytic
study.
Bridie Kelly, Lyn McClelland, Pat Rubies.
The communicube: Five Story Self Structure.
John
Casson
4 .15 pm Keynote: `The
Psychiatric Drug Conspiracy’ by Joanna Moncrief
Plenary Discussion.
5.30
Close
Day
2
Thursday 7th
PROGRAM
9.30 Registration: Healing
Therapies Room continues throughout the conference.
10.00 Welcome by Tony
Lloyd
M.P.
10.15 Jacqui Dillon (title
tba)
10.45 Sandra Escher
(Children
and voices: tba)
11.15 Break
11.30 Terry Lynch: Hearing
Voices. Restoring human experience to individuals and communities
12.00 Peter Bullimore:
Schizophrenia – dispelling the myths.
12.30 Marius Romme: A more
helpful alternative to the harmful concept of schizophrenia.
1.15 LUNCH
2.15 Afternoon workshops
and
seminars
Mary Maddock: Irish Soteria – Sli Eile(Another Way)
`Other
ways from personal discovery.
Belfast Hearing Voices Group: `What is going on?’
Chas de Swiet: www.nutter.tv – an interactive online
portrayal of hearing voices.
John Robinson: Boundaries or barriers in
counselling.
Sandra Escher and Jacqui Dillon: Childhood abuse and
voices.
Brian Hickman and Julie Downs: Starting and
supporting
hearing voices groups.
OTHERS TO BE
ANNOUNCED
4.15 Break
4.30 Dance performance by
Louise Pembroke
5.00 Plenary and close
5.45.
Evening Social tba
Day 3 Friday 8th
PROGRAM
9.30 Registration:
10 am Open Seminar on the
International
Paranoia Network including presentations on experience and discussion
of
the Maastricht Interview for Paranoia.
Discussants include Marius
Romme, Sandra Escher, Peter Bullimore, Peter Cawley, Steven Simmonite
Wayne Clay, Amanda Evans, Michelle Campbell, Terence McLaughlin and
Alec
Jenner
12.00 LUNCH
1pm Alec Jenner `at 80’
with
Phil Virden - founders of Asylum magazine `Some Reflections on the 20
years’.
1.30 Meeting for the
planning
and founding of the European Association for Democratic Psychiatry
(International Association for Democratic Communities).
Including
by
special invitation, Pino Pini, a psychiatrist member of Psychiatria
Democratica and independent radical pioneer of the self help movement
in
Italy.
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World Hearing Voices
Day
September 14th 2006
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It is estimated that worldwide, up to 4% of
men,
women and children hear voices, as part of a worldwide initiative,the
Hearing Voices Network is holding a series of international, and
national
events to increase awareness of the voice hearing
experience.
Is hearing voices an
illness or
a human variation that does not have to result in an illness?
Social presumptions about hearing voices are negative
and are
not based on the experience of voice hearers. These assumptions are
stigmatising, isolating and therefore make people ill.
Members of Resonance (Dutch HVN) are organising together
with
the Hearing Voices Network in the UK , the German network, Nest in
Berlin
and voice hearers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland,
Austria, Palestine, Australia and America events in which they will
open a
public debate
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