Produced by: Jenni Autio, Tea Latvala, Sampo Lehtinen, Oskari Pastila Written & directed by: Sampo Lehtinen, Oskari Pastila Exile is an experimental stage performance; a fusion of computer animations, documentary, fictional narrative, music and fashion design. Exile tells the story of Kathryn, a woman who hears voices and who has built part of her personality […]
Moving On An extract from a training film produced in collaboration with Sam Warner – a psychologist
Published in: The Times, 27 January 2007, By Michelle Kirsch We have all had the experience of seeing a person walking down the road, talking loudly to what appears to be him or herself. Before the advent of hands-free mobile phones, which gives the scene a “sane” context, we would have thought the person disturbed, […]
Published in: The Independent, 6 March, 2007, By Kate Hilpburn Eleanor Longden, 25, started hearing voices when she was a teenager. But, contrary to the usual perception of inner voices, Longden says hers weren’t destructive: “It was rather mundane, simply giving me a narration of some of the day-to-day things I was doing. In many […]
Published in: Psychology Today, January 1, 2007, by William Lee Adams Despite their association with mental illness, auditory hallucinations don’t always torment those who hear them. In fact, only one out of every three so-called “voice hearers” requires psychiatric help. The other two don’t experience difficulties and may even consider their voices supportive or inspiring. […]
Published in: Daily Mail, 9 October, 2006 Schizophrenia should be abolished as a concept because it is unscientific, stigmatising, and does not address the root causes of serious mental illness, a group of experts said today. The diagnosis, which emerged in the 19th century, is flawed and harmful, they claimed. It not only grouped together […]
I’m off to America tomorrow to help spread the word about the pioneering work of the Hearing Voices Movement. On Monday I will deliver the first session of the ‘Starting Hearing Voices Groups Training’ at the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community. It will be great to be a part of these important developments particularly as […]
I’ve just got back from delivering a 2 day training course with Eleanor Longden on Abuse, Trauma and Dissociation, to 35 mental health professionals in Shrewsbury. I was really struck by people’s willingness and commitment to staying with some really difficult material. We spoke about the importance of having good support and the need to […]
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