Links
Below is a collection of links and resources that you may find useful. Do you know of any websites that would be of use here? If so leave a message in the comment box.
Information about organisations committed to empowerment, recovery and emanciapation
Asylum Associates - the action arm of Asylum Working towards a social firm for training, conferences and publishing, advocacy and community facilitation
Centre for Community Mental health (Birmingham, UK) - works to improve services and life opportunities for people with severe and enduring mental health problems. CCMH concentrates on tackling social exclusion and the development of innovative approaches to service provision through training, education and research
International Centre for Recovery Action - promotes recovery for people with mental health problems and issues
Icarus Project - envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of extreme states of consciousness.
INTAR - gathers prominent survivors, professionals, family members, and advocates from around the world to work together for new clinical and social practices towards emotional distress and what is often labeled as psychosis.
International Mental Health Collaborating Network towards Community Mental Health and Citizenship - an International Non Governmental Organisation founded by Mental Health Organisations and individuals who have developed good practices services in community mental health based on the whole system approach.
Mad in America – The site provides a resource and a community in rethinking psychiatry care. Features include news, stories of recovery, access to source documents and informed writtings of bloggers. Bloggers include people with lived experience, peer specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, program managers, social activists, attorneys and journalists.
Madness Radio: Voices And Visions from Outside Mental Health - brings you personal experiences of ‘madness’ from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments, and also features authors, advocates, scientists, and artists. Hosted by Will Hall.
MadNOTBad – Website for sharing experiences & creativity - is a space for those affected by mental ill health and distress to share their experiences, opinions and creative talent online
Mental Health Forum - The friendliest place on the web to meet and discuss anything related to mental health, includes forum on hearing voices
MindFreedom International - a nonprofit organization that unites 100 sponsor and affiliate grassroots groups with thousands of individual members to win human rights and alternatives for people labeled with psychiatric disabilities.
National Empowerment Center - carries a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people with lived experience with mental health issues, trauma, and extreme states.
No Free Lunch - health care providers who believe that pharmaceutical promotion should not guide clinical practice. Our mission is to encourage health care providers to practice medicine on the basis of scientific evidence rather than on the basis of pharmaceutical promotion.
Pat Deegan PhD & Associates - helping people work with psychiatrists to arrive at the best decisions for treatment and recovery.
Person First Solutions - Mental Health Training, Consultancy & Clinical Services
Psychminded - for all who work in psychiatry, psychology and mental health
General mental health organisations and information sources for the UK including Wales
Organisations England and Wales
Depression UK - Help and information for people who experience depression and those who act in their support
Mental Health Foundation - Charity improving the lives of those with mental healthproblems or learning disabilities
MDF - The BiPolar Organisation
Mind - National Mental Health Organisation for England and Wales
No Panic - Help and support for Anxiety problems
Rethink - Mental Illness
Young Minds - The voice of young people’s mental health and wellbeing
Organisations Wales
HAFAL - Mental Health Organisation for Wales
Gofal Cymru - a mental health and wellbeing charity in Wales
Mind Cymru - Mind’s force for change in Wales
General Information
Coming Off Medication - aims to give you up to date information about psychiatric medication, how it functions and the withdrawal process
Counselling UK Directory - network to be connected with a professional counsellor or psychotherapist
DrugWatch - a comprehensive online medical database featuring information about thousands of medications currently on the market
Neuroleptic Awareness - In this website you will find a variety of information regarding neuroleptics, or anti-psychotic medication, in relation to the human body.
English language Information and support for voice hearers around the world
International Network
INTERVOICE - Focuses on solutions that improve the life of people who hear voices, for those who are distressed by the experience.
INTERVOICE FaceBook Page - join up if you have a Facebook account and want to keep up with the latest news and developments of the hearing voices movement
Hearing Voices Forum - This online discussion forum is run by the Mental Health Forum in association with INTERVOICE
National Networks
Hearing Voices Network – England
Hearing Voices Network – Scotland
Hearing Voices Network – Ireland
Other English Language National Networks
Hearing Voices Network -Australia (HVNA)
Other Resources about hearing voices
Dundee Hearing Voices Group (Scotland) - a service user led registered charity which seeks to create acceptance that hearing voices is a valid experience. Based at 216 Hilltown Dundee under the banner ‘HaVeN’,
Experience Focused Counselling (EFC) Training Institute (Germany/UK)- Experience Focused Counselling (EFC) is a counselling approach that goes back to Professor Romme & Dr. Escher.
Hearing Voices Movement: Information from Wikipedia
Hearing Voices Fact Sheet: From the Mental health Foundation
Working to Mental Health Recovery - a cutting edge approach to Mental Health provision, provides training and consultancy on hearing voices
Voice Collective: Peer support for young people who hear voices - a London-wide project to develop peer support groups for young people (aged 12-18) who hear, see or sense things other
Websites of individuals associated with the worldwide hearing voices movement
Ron Coleman website - has been active in the field of mental health since 1991, when affecting his own recovery from mental illness, he is a trainer and consultant and pioneer of the worldwide hearing voices movement
Dirk Corstens website - chair of INTERVOICE and psychiatrist, provides lectures, courses, group workshops and individual treatment regarding hearing voices
Jacqui Dillon website - Writer, campaigner & international trainer, specialising in hearing voices, trauma and dissociation
Will Hall Website- co-founder of USA Hearing Voices Network. A mental diversity counselor and consultant with a private therapy practice based in Portland Oregon
Gail Hornstein website co-founder of USA Hearing Voices Network. Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts (USA)
Rufus May website - in order to help inform people who may have seen the film “The Doctor Who Hears Voices”
Marius Romme and Sandra Escher website - Founders of a new approach in which accepting and making sense of the hearing voices experience makes recovery for patients hearing voices possible
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