Accepting Voices

Accepting Voices
Author: Sandra Escher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1993
Genre: Hallucinations and illusions
ISBN: 9781874690139

13 people describe their experiences of hearing voices. The book illustrates that many people hear voices and that not everyone has recourse to psychiatry, but that there are ways of coping which enable people to come to terms with their experience. It focuses on techniques to deal with voices, emphasizing that personal growth should be stimulated rather than inhibited.

Seeing Voices

Seeing Voices
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2011-03-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0307365751

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect — a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."

Children Hearing Voices

Children Hearing Voices
Author: Sandra Escher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Auditory hallucinations
ISBN: 9781906254353

Unique book providing support and solutions. It is in two parts, one part for voice-hearing children, the other for carers.

Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis

Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis
Author: Brandon A. Gaudiano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-01-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199997225

There have been exciting new developments in the treatment of schizophrenia and related psychoses in recent decades. Clinical guidelines increasingly recommend that patients be offered evidence-based psychosocial treatments in addition to medications, as such interventions can produce greater improvements and may prevent relapses better compared with medications alone. In parallel with these recent advancements, an evolution in the way cognitive-behavioral therapies are being conceptualized and implemented has occurred due to the incorporation of novel strategies that promote psychological processes such as acceptance and mindfulness. While there are a variety of acceptance/mindfulness approaches being developed to address psychosis, there is not currently a dominant approach. In Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis, Brandon Gaudiano brings together the researchers and clinicians working at the cutting edge of acceptance/mindfulness therapies for psychosis to compare and contrast emerging approaches and discuss them within the context of the more traditional cognitive-behavioral interventions. The book includes a section that focuses on six distinct treatment models that incorporate acceptance and mindfulness strategies for psychosis and a section that provides a synthesis and analysis of acceptance/mindfulness approaches to psychosis. It concludes with recommendations for moving the research forward in a constructive and responsible way. This volume will be an important resource for researchers and clinicians interested in gaining a deeper understanding of mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches and newer psychosocial treatments for severe mental illness.

Living with Voices

Living with Voices
Author: M. A. J. Romme
Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781906254223

Provides the evidence to show it's possible to overcome problems with hearing voices and take back control of one's life.

Making Sense of Voices

Making Sense of Voices
Author: M. A. J. Romme
Publisher:
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2000
Genre: Auditory hallucinations
ISBN: 9781874690863

Just under 10 years ago, the authors triggered a seismic shift in the understanding of voice-hearing. They put the powerful case for accepting and validating people's own interpretations of their voices, and showed how such interpretations often enabled people to live with them far more effectively than bio-medical approaches. This handbook for practitioners builds on this work. It combines examples with guidance on the various processes involved in enabling voice-hearers to deal with their voices and lead an active and fulfilling life.

Hearing Voices

Hearing Voices
Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2012-04-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107007224

A comprehensive exploration of the history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations).

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis
Author: Eric M. J. Morris
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-02-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1118499190

Emerging from cognitive behavioural traditions, mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies hold promise as new evidence-based approaches for helping people distressed by the symptoms of psychosis. These therapies emphasise changing the relationship with unusual and troublesome experiences through cultivating experiential openness, awareness, and engagement in actions based on personal values. In this volume, leading international researchers and clinicians describe the major treatment models and research background of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Person-Based Cognitive Therapy (PBCT), as well as the use of mindfulness, in individual and group therapeutic contexts. The book contains discrete chapters on developing experiential interventions for voices and paranoia, conducting assessment and case formulation, and a discussion of ways to work with spirituality from a metacognitive standpoint. Further chapters provide details of how clients view their experiences of ACT and PBCT, as well as offering clear protocols based on clinical practice. This practical and informative book will be of use to clinicians and researchers interested in understanding and implementing ACT and mindfulness interventions for people with psychosis.

Liberating Voices

Liberating Voices
Author: Douglas Schuler
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2008
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262693666

Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in Christopher Alexander's classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language, Schuler presents a pattern language containing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges. Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model of social change that integrates theory and practice by showing how information and communication (whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based) can be used to address urgent social and environmental problems collaboratively. Each of the patterns that form the pattern language (which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100 contributors) is presented consistently; each describes a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution. The pattern language begins with the most general patterns ("Theory") and proceeds to the most specific ("Tactics"). Each pattern is a template for research as well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus forming a single coherent whole.

Voices in the Evening

Voices in the Evening
Author: Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811231011

From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín) After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”