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Adams, William Lee (2015). Why Nearly Half of Us Hear Voices (and How to Fix it). Newsweek, January 20, 2015
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Books
Baker, Paul. (1995). The voice inside: A practical guide to coping with hearing voices. Manchester, UK: Hearing Voices Network (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).
Barham, Peter. (1984). Schizophrenia and Human Value. London: Blackwell (revised ed., Free Association Books, 1993).
Bentall, Richard. (2003). Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature. London: Penguin.
Blackman, Lisa. (2001). Hearing Voices, Embodiment and Experience. London: Free Association Books.
Bloom, S. (1997). Creating Sanctuary: Towards the Evolution of Safe Communities. London: Routledge.
Boyle, Mary. (1992; expanded 2nd ed., 2003). Schizophrenia—A Scientific Delusion? London: Routledge.
Bracken, Patrick. (2002). Trauma: Culture, Meaning, and Philosophy. London: Whurr Publishers.
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Chadwick, Peter. (1997). Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective. London: Routledge.
Coleman, Ron. (1999). Hearing voices and the politics of oppression. In Craig Newnes, Guy Holmes, and Cailzie Dunn (eds.), This is Madness. Ross-on-Wye, UK: PCCS Books, pp.149-163.
Coleman, Ron. (2004). Recovery: An Alien Concept (2nd Edition). Lewis, Scotland: P&P Press (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).
Coleman, Ron and Mike Smith. (2006) Working with Voices—Victim to Victor (2nd ed). Lewis, Scotland: P&P Press (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).
Coleman, R., Smith, M. and Good, J. (2003). Psychiatric First Aid in Psychosis: A Handbook for Nurses, Carers and People Distressed by Psychotic Experience (2nd ed.). Lewis, Scotland: P&P Press (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).
Corstens, D., Escher, S. and Romme, M. (2008). Accepting and working with voices: The Maastricht Approach. In A. Moskowitz, I. Schafer and M. J. Dorahy (eds.), Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Emerging Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 319-331.
Corstens, D., May, R. and Longden, E. (2007). Talking with Voices: The Voice Dialoguing Manual (available from www.intervoiceonline.org).
Deegan, Patricia. Coping with voices: Self-help strategies for people who hear voices that are distressing (available from National Empowerment Center, www.power2u.org).
Downs, Julie (ed.). (2001). Coping with voices and visions and Starting and supporting hearing voices groups. Manchester, UK: Hearing Voices Network (available from www.hearing-voices.org).
Escher, S. & Romme, M. (2010). Children hearing voices: What you need to know and what you can do. Ross-on-Wye, UK: PCCS Books. (available from www.pccs-books.co.uk).
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Icarus Project. (2004). Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness: A Reader and Roadmap of Bipolar Worlds (available from www.theicarusproject.net).
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Romme, M. & Escher, S. (2010). Personal history and hearing voices. In F. Larøi & A. Aleman (eds.), Hallucinations: A practical guide to treatment and management (pp. 233-256). NY: Oxford University Press.
Romme, Marius, Sandra Escher, Jacqui Dillon, Dirk Corstens, and Mervyn Morris (eds.). (2009). Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery (available from www.pccs-books.co.uk).
Rothschild, B. (2000). The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment. London: Norton.
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Stastny, Peter and Peter Lehmann (eds.). (2007). Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry (available from www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com).
Steele, Ken and Claire Berman. (2001). The Day the Voices Stopped: A Schizophrenic's Journey From Madness to Hope. New York: Basic Books.
Stephens, Lynn and George Graham. (2000). When Self-Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sweeney, Angela, Peter Beresford, Alison Faulkner, Mary Nettle, and Diana Rose (eds.). This is Survivor Research (available from www.pccs-books.co.uk).
Thomas, Philip. (1997). The Dialectics of Schizophrenia. London: Free Association Books.
Watkins, John. (1998). Hearing Voices: A Common Human Experience. Melbourne, Australia: Hill of Content (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).
Watkins, J. (2008). Hearing voices: A common human experience. Michelle Anderson Publishing.
Watkins, John. Healing Schizophrenia: Using Medication Wisely (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).
Watters, Ethan. (2010). Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. New York: Free Press.
Weinstein, Jenny (ed.). Mental Health, Service User Involvement, and Recovery. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Whitaker, Robert. (2010). Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America. New York: Crown Books.
Working to Recovery. How to Start and Run a Hearing Voices Group (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).
Working to Recovery. Working with Voices: Victim to Victor Workbook. (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).
Films
2009 and 2010 World Hearing Voices Conference DVD (2011) Available at www.intervoiceonline.org
A Brilliant Madness (2002). Available from www.pbs.org.
Beyond the Medical Model (2013). Available at: www.westernmassrlc.org/rlc-film-productions
Louise Pembroke, Dedication to the Seven: Hearing Voices in Dance and Catatonia (2007). Available from www.mind.org.uk.
Dialogues with Madwomen (1993). Dir. Allie Light. Available from Women Make Movies (www.wmm.com).
Hearing Voices: Approaches to Managing Psychosis (1995). BBC Worldwide. Available from Films for the Humanities & Sciences (www.ffh.com).
Mars Project (2008). Available at: www.madinamerica.com/product/mars-project-2008
People Say I'm Crazy (2004). Dir. John Cadigan and Katie Cadigan. Palo Alto Pictures. Available from www.peoplesayimcrazy.org.
Someone Beside You (2006). Dir. Edgar Hagen. Available from www.maximage.ch.
* Many resources taken from the 2011 and 2015 resource lists developed by Gail Hornstein and Jacqui Dillon. Access a printable copy of this full list from www.gailhornstein.com by clicking this link: Resources on Hearing Voices and Related Topics
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