ArticleJournal of mental health (Abingdon, England)2013
The voice-hearer.
Article in Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Neither saintly nor psychotic: a narrative systematic review of the evolving Western perception of voice hearing.History of psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- PPI in psychiatry and the problem of knowledge.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy.Medical humanities · 2022Article
- "Figuring out how to be normal": Exploring how young people and parents make sense of voice-hearing in the family context.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2022Article
- In Defense of Madness: The Problem of Disability.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2019Article
- Madness Decolonized?: Madness as Transnational Identity in Gail Hornstein's Agnes's Jacket.The Journal of medical humanities · 2018Article
- Assessing the Impact and Effectiveness of Hearing Voices Network Self-Help Groups.Community mental health journal · 2018Article
- The Hearing Voices Movement as Postmodern Religion-Making: Meaning, Power, Sacralization, Identity.Implicit religion : journal of the Centre for the Study of Implicit Religion and Contemporary Spirituality · 2017Article
- Commentary: Assessing the Impact and Effectiveness of Hearing Voices Network Self-Help Groups.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Culture and hallucinations: overview and future directions.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2014Review
- Emerging perspectives from the hearing voices movement: implications for research and practice.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundFor 25 years, the international Hearing Voices Movement and the U.K. Hearing Voices Network have campaigned to improve the lives of people who hear voices. In doing so, they have introduced a new term into the mental health lexicon: "the voice-hearer."
aimsThis article offers a "thick description" of the figure of "the voice-hearer."
methodA selection of prominent texts (life narratives, research papers, videos and blogs), the majority produced by people active in the Hearing Voices or consumer/survivor/ex-patient movements, were analysed from an interdisciplinary medical humanities perspective.
results"The voice-hearer" (i) asserts voice-hearing as a meaningful experience, (ii) challenges psychiatric authority and (iii) builds identity through sharing life narrative. While technically accurate, the definition of "the voice-hearer" as simply "a person who has experienced voice-hearing or auditory verbal hallucinations" fails to acknowledge that this is a complex, politically resonant and value-laden identity.
conclusionsThe figure of "the voice-hearer" comes into being through a specific set of narrative practices as an "expert by experience" who challenges the authority and diagnostic categories of mainstream psychiatry, especially the category of "schizophrenia."
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