title: Emerging perspectives from the hearing voices movement: implications for research and practice.
abstract: The international Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) is a prominent mental health service-user/survivor movement that promotes the needs and perspectives of experts by experience in the phenomenon of hearing voices (auditory verbal hallucinations). The main tenet of the HVM is the notion that hearing voices is a meaningful human experience, and in this article, we discuss the historical growth and influence of the HVM before considering the implications of its values for research and practice in relation to voice-hearing. Among other recommendations, we suggest that the involvement of voice-hearers in research and a greater use of narrative and qualitative approaches are essential. Challenges for implementing user-led research are identified, and avenues for future developments are discussed.
authors.affiliation: RIAGG Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands; d.corstens@riagg-maastricht.nl.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Corstens
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK;
authors.forename: Eleanor
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Longden
authors.affiliation: ARC Centre for Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, UK;
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McCarthy-Jones
authors.affiliation: London Hearing Voices Project, Mind in Camden, London, UK;
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waddingham
authors.affiliation: Brain and Psychological Sciences Research Centre, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia; Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006212:Hallucinations; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010358:Patient Participation; D010379:Peer Group; D012106:Research; D012559:Schizophrenia; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012657:Self-Help Groups
keywords: auditory hallucinations; service-user involvement; social psychiatry