title: [The collective modes of ordering of the voice-hearing experience].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The article examines how voice-hearing as an (in)direct experience can become a subject of ethnographic observation.
  
  
  METHODS
  An ethnographic participant observation was conducted over a five-month period of time in two "Trialogue" self-help groups organized by the "Netzwerk Stimmenhören", an NGO based in Berlin, Germany. Additionally, feedback interviews were held within the groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four different collective modes of ordering of voice-hearing are captured: Within the groups the phenomenon was at times (1) normalized in the mode of normalization, structured in the mode of voice-hearing (2) as a passion, (3) as a turn of fate or (4) as a disability.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychiatric-social anthropological cooperative research projects may help to achieve and support a change of perspectives for actors working in the psychiatry, actors in psychiatric self-help organizations and individuals who hear voices. Due to the applied methods results may not only be of interest within field of scientific discourse and furthermore create a different insight into the field.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mewes
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik der Charité im St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: von Peter
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004645:Empathy; D005858:Germany; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D055809:Illness Behavior; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D011570:Psychiatry; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012944:Social Support; D012951:Socialization