Why bad/negative voices?
Positives/try speaking to the voices in a nice way instead of trying to go against them.
- When Hearing Voices Is a Good Thing @ The Atlantic - "Meanwhile, the Indians and Africans were more likely to say that their hallucinations reminded them of friends and family, and that the voices were playful or even entertaining. "Mostly, the voices are good," said one Ghanian participant. A Chennai participant said, "I have a companion to talk [to] . . . [laughs] I need not go out to speak. I can talk within myself!""
- Stanford researcher: Hallucinatory 'voices' shaped by local culture - "The research, Luhrmann observed, suggests that the "harsh, violent voices so common in the West may not be an inevitable feature of schizophrenia." Cultural shaping of schizophrenia behavior may be even more profound than previously thought."
Positives/try speaking to the voices in a nice way instead of trying to go against them.
- When Hearing Voices Is a Good Thing @ The Atlantic - "Many in the Chennai and Accra samples seemed to experience their voices as people: the voice was that of a human the participant knew, such as a brother or a neighbor, or a human-like spirit whom the participant also knew. These respondents seemed to have real human relationships with the voices—sometimes even when they did not like them....This new voice seemed like it might get nasty," Luhrmann writes. "The group had told [Hans] that he needed to talk to it. They said that he should say, 'We have to live with each other and we have to make the best of it, and we can do it only if we respect each other.' He did that, and this new voice became nice." "
Scizophrenia Stimulator
Avatar Therapy - Audio Visual Assisted Therapy Aid for Refractory auditory hallucinations
- Julian Leff
- Silencing Voices - Julian Leff Pt.1 // Pt.2 // Pt.3 // Pt.4(EMH 2013) uploaded by Michael Krausz
- Julian Leff | Hearing the Voice
- Avatar Therapy Helps Schizophrenia Sufferers Confront Inner Voices @ TIME.com
- @UCL
- Avatar Therapy Helps Silence Schizophrenia’s Voices - Bloomberg
- Avatars ease voices for schizophrenia patients @ BBC News
- Avatar therapy for persecutory auditory hallucinations: What is it and how does it work? - "We have developed a novel therapy based on a computer program, which enables the patient to create an avatar of the entity, human or non-human, which they believe is persecuting them. The therapist encourages the patient to enter into a dialogue with their avatar, and is able to use the program to change the avatar so that it comes under the patient's control over the course of six 30-min sessions and alters from being abusive to becoming friendly and supportive. The therapy was evaluated in a randomised controlled trial with a partial crossover design. One group went straight into the therapy arm: “immediate therapy”. The other continued with standard clinical care for 7 weeks then crossed over into Avatar therapy: “delayed therapy”. There was a significant reduction in the frequency and intensity of the voices and in their omnipotence and malevolence. Several individuals had a dramatic response, their voices ceasing completely after a few sessions of the therapy. The average effect size of the therapy was 0.8. We discuss the possible psychological mechanisms for the success of Avatar therapy and the implications for the origins of persecutory voices."
- The effects of an Audio Visual Assisted Therapy Aid for Refractory auditory hallucinations (AVATAR therapy): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
- Avatar therapy helps confront distressing voices uploaded by New Scientist
- Avatar-Facilitated Therapy and Virtual Worlds uploaded by UWTV
Hearing Voices Movement
- The Hearing Voices Movement is the name used by organizations and individuals advocating the "hearing voices approach", an alternative way of understanding the experience of those people who "hear voices". In the medical professional literature, ‘voices’ are most often referred to as auditory hallucinations or ‘verbal’ hallucinations. The movement uses the term ‘voices’, which it feels is a more accurate and 'user-friendly' term.The movement was instigated by Marius Romme, Sandra Escher and Patsy Hage in 1987. It challenges the notion that to hear voices is necessarily a characteristic of mental illness. Instead it regards hearing voices as a meaningful and understandable, although unusual, human variation. It therefore rejects the stigma and pathologisation of hearing voices and advocates human rights, social justice and support for people who hear voices that is empowering and recovery focused. The movement thus challenges the medical model of mental illness, specifically the validity of the schizophrenia construct. - Wikipedia
- Intervoice: The International Hearing Voices Network
- Hearing Voices Movement
- Emerging Perspectives From the Hearing Voices Movement: Implications for Research and Practice
- The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo
- INTERVOICE: The Hearing Voices Movement - YouTube