A good overview of the UK Hearing Voices movement from across the pond

Can You Live With the Voices in Your Head?

By DANIEL B. SMITH

Published: March 25, 2007

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/magazine/25voices.t.html?pagewanted=1

It's a longish article but a good overview. There's a hope in there. Prof. Richard Bentall recieved funding to see if cognitive techniques could be used in prepsychotic states to prevent the syndrome turning into a full blown disorder. The results of that research should be published soon I guess.

It's wonderful to see the Americans describe the HVN as antipsychiatric. I don't really see them as that. Many of them don't take medication. The (sexy) Jacqui Dillon hasn't taken medication for over 30 years.

World Hearing Voices Day

Did you know something about Louise Pembroke?

Louise is so famous that if you type her name into Google it comes up with an autosuggestion for "Louise Pembroke self harm." I know her as a contributor to the legendary Openmind magazine.

I'm reading through an interesting article on hearing voices and the hearing voices network published in the New York Times a few years ago. She's mentioned in there as the person who prompted the start of World Hearing Voices Day which will be on the 14th of September this year.

Hurrah!