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Hearing voices: embodiment and experience
- Author:
- BLACKMAN Lisa
- Publisher:
- Free Association Books
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 275p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The hearing of voices is generally regarded as indicative of mental health problems, yet there is evidence to suggest that hearing voices is far more common than believed, that many voice hearers are not suffering from mental illness, and that those who develop non psychiatric explanations of their voices may live with them quite well. This book, drawing on the experiences of the Hearing Voices Network, challenges commonly accepted perceptions of mental health and questions how it is that we come to experience and relate to ourselves as autonomous, rational human beings. The book draws on critical psychology, post structuralism, discourse theory and work on embodiment for many of its insights.