These posters provide practical strategies as well as suggestions for where to get help to assist both people who hear voices and their loved ones.

These posters provide practical strategies as well as suggestions for where to get help from a WA mental health service to assist both people who hear voices and their loved ones.

This poster aims to help destigmatise voice hearing and common misconceptions  about the experience and the people who hear them.

A Richmond Wellbeing program that is part of the global Hearing Voices Movement. HVNWA is a resource for people living in Western Australia who hear voices and experience other unusual perceptions, offering a place for the voice-hearing community to access relevant information, training, and hearing voices support groups.

A website devoted to linking voice hearers across Australia and tracking the progress of the Australian Hearing Voices Establishment Project (AVHEP), an initiative investigating the possibility of establishing a national Hearing Voices Organization in Australia.

A specialist psychological treatment and research clinic in Melbourne for people who hear voices or have similar experiences

A charity in the UK that supports the International Hearing Voices Movement by connecting people, sharing ideas, distributing information, highlighting innovative initiatives, encouraging high quality respectful research and promoting its values across the world.

A national charity helping all Australians affected by mental illness. Type “voices” into the search bar to access a number of self-help resources, information and personal stories.

An organization run by people who have recovered from major mental illness. Their mission is to change the mental health system so that it truly supports recovery.  Their website provides lots of FREE info! You can also order stuff from their online store, including the useful booklet Coping with Voices:  Self help strategies for people who hear voices that are distressing, by Patricia E. Deegan, Ph.D., illustrated By Carolyn Affa

A website to support and promote compassionate approaches to voices and other experiences.

Is a translational research institute that aims to reduce the incidence of mental illness and the stigma around it, to actively reduce suicide rates and empower everyone to live the most mentally healthy lives possible

Eleanor Longden gave an inspiring TED talk in 2013 about her journey of hearing voices. In this article she answers common questions about voice hearing with her signature honesty and humour.

A helpful leaflet for parents and carers to help you to develop a new and more empowering way of thinking about your child’s experiences, and to help you in finding ways to assist your child in their emotional development and recovery from hearing overwhelming voices.

An interesting article on children who hear voices – helping to move away from stigma and fear and towards hope and understanding.

An insightful article about the uniqueness of different children’s experiences of hearing voices.

Lynne Malcolm interviews child psychologist, Dr Seetha Subbiah, about her book Did You Hear That? This can be listened to via downloading the audio beneath the title or clicking on the link to read the transcript. A colourful and engaging children’s book that, written by a psychologist who believes that once children understand the reason for these voices they can manage them and live happier lives.

A thought-provoking article challenging the stigma of “madness” around hearing voices, offering the insight of someone who’s perspective shifted from ‘people who hear voices are psychologically very unwell’ to ‘this is an experience many healthy people have, and is not always absolute and distressing’.

A motivational blog by Julie Bell, challenging the idea that schizophrenia is a life sentence.

An interesting article about the growing movement of voice hearers that argue that hearing voices shouldn’t necessarily be treated with medication.

Interesting research showing how powerful the interpretation of voices can be!

A thought-provoking article that shows how our culture shapes whether we see hallucinations as good or bad.

An artist with schizophrenia captures what it is like to experience hallucinations in her art.

Feel like checking out a movie about hearing voices or seeing visions? Have a scroll through this extensive list of movies for inspiration.

Check out these facts to brush up on what you know about voice hearing.

Did you know that many famous people hear voices too?

An interesting read which challenges the first-line assumption that many people have- ‘hearing voices = schizophrenia’. The article discusses the results of an open-ended online questionnaire about auditory hallucinations, including the findings which challenged the researchers’ own assumptions!

An article which discusses how to go about speaking with someone who is experiencing hearing voices. A clinical psychologist and a woman who regularly experiences voice hearing were consulted for their opinions and perspectives.  

An interesting article on mid-life psychosis and voice hearing in women- emphasising the significant impact hormones can have on our mental health.

An interesting blog from American academic Elyn Saks talking about her experiences surviving and thriving with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. From diagnosis, to friends, to her love life!

A notable study which revealed that psychologically healthy individuals can experience induced hallucinations too.

A useful book for both clients and clinicians on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for voices. Also available as an EBook

This practical guide outlines the latest advances in understanding and treating psychotic symptoms and disorders, articulating step-by-step the clinical skills and knowledge required to effectively treat this patient population. 

Royal Society Prize shortlisted psychologist Charles Fernyhough draws on extensive original research and a wealth of cultural touch points to reveal the workings of our inner voices, and how those voices link to creativity and development. Picked as a top neuroscience book of 2016 by Forbes and a science book of the year by the Observer and ABC. Also available as an EBook.

This book is a groundbreaking development in modern mental health because it recognises the importance of the first hand experience and argues that hearing voices is not a sign of madness but a reaction to serious problems in life.

Also available as an EBook

The experience of ‘hearing voices’ was once associated with prophetic communications. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild. An alternative idea, forged mainly by people who hear voices themselves, argues that hearing voices is an understandable response to traumatic life-events. Simon McCarthy Jones addresses the urgent need to overcome the tensions between these two ways of understanding ‘voice hearing’.

Also available as an EBook

This book contains a wealth of information of great practical value to people who hear voices as well as to those who wish to broaden their understanding of this fascinating phenomenon.

This book travels from voice-hearing in the ancient world through to contemporary experience, examining how power, politics, gender, medicine and religion have shaped the meaning of hearing voices.

Also available as an EBook

This book offers a step by step guide to self-improvement of paranoia, based on methods of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. A great book for both clients and for clinicians. Also available as an EBook

Richard Bentall, a research psychologist pulls together a great deal of evidence to shatter the medical model myths about madness and to demonstrate that the so-called mysterious, symptoms of the mentally ill are actually extensions of what many of us experience every day. Also available as an EBook