Entries by Rai

Your Feedback

19/03/2011 /98 Comments/in /by

If you have heard me speak at a training event or conference, I’d love to get your feedback too. Just add your comments to the bottom of this post. With thanks, Jacqui

A role model in the Hearing Voices Movement

14/03/2011 /0 Comments/in /by

For us Jacqui is unique and it is a great pleasure having known her for many reasons personally as well professionally. Jacqui survived terrible abuse and became strong by using her experience to learn from it. She is one of the few people who is able to really understand that the voices are related to […]

An extremely effective developer of services

11/03/2011 /0 Comments/in /by

I have known Jacqui Dillon for several years now — we first met in the early 2000s when she attended the London-based Critical Mental Health Forum, in which I was also involved.  Jacqui has been an extremely effective developer of services in the third sector.  She developed the London Hearing Voices Project and has also […]

A highly skilled, empathic teacher

11/03/2011 /0 Comments/in /by

I have employed Jacqui Dillon on a number of occasions, both as a trainer of mental health-care workers, and as a workshop facilitator with professional and service-user participation. Jacqui is a highly skilled, empathic teacher who through her work and experience is an inspiration and motivator to all, promoting innovation and much-needed change in the […]

Challenging and inspiring

11/03/2011 /0 Comments/in /by

We have used Jacqui on our undergraduate and master’s Social Work courses for the last few years as well as on our AMHP training courses. Jacqui presents an articulate and powerful view of mental illness which is both challenging and inspiring to our students and staff. Feedback from students is overwhelmingly positive, many stating it […]

The Personal is Political

06/09/2010 /0 Comments/in , /by

Telling Stories? explores the contemporary state of affairs in the understanding and treatment of psychosis. An inclusive approach to mental distress requires that in order to truly understand psychosis we must begin by listening to those who know this from the inside out; the voices and narrative of those who have been condemned as “unanalysable” […]

The Tale of An Ordinary Little Girl

06/02/2010 /3 Comments/in , /by

The Tale of an Ordinary Little Girl won the 2010 Award for Best Paper in the Second Volume of Psychosis (Category B: Experienced-based articles). Hearing voices, self-harm, eating “disorders” and dissociation, when viewed objectively, are frequently classified as symptoms of serious mental illnesses and disordered personalities that require treatment, eradication and cure. This convenient societal […]