The Launch of a National Network The Hearing Voices Network Ireland (HVNI) invites you to its National launch on Friday 17th April 2015, 1.30 pm-4.30pm, at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 24 D’Olier Street, Dublin 2. Read More…
The enemy within: People who hear voices in their heads are being encouraged to talk back See full article in todays Independant by clicking HERE
Brian Hartnett of Hearing Voices Ireland (HVI) interviewed by Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh as part of The Moment Of Truth TV series on RTE. Brian tells his story of how he developed a voice hearing experience as a result of experimenting Read More…
An interview by Sue Nunn on KCLR 96.6 FM with Charles Brand and Sean of the Kilkenny hearing voices group. See the Voices Groups section of this website for information on the Kilkenny group and others around Ireland.
As part of Mental Health Week (October 5th – 12th) Limerick Mental Health Association have invited Brian Hartnett, founder of Hearing Voices Ireland, to speak about hearing voices and schizophrenia at the Absolute Hotel, Sir Harry’s Mall, 7.30 – 9pm Read More…
The Shamanic View of Mental Illness In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the Read More…
JOHN K: Hearing Voices – My story Everyone has a story, my story is just that – my story – different in that it is unique to me, the same in that everyone has a story to tell. I’m 53 Read More…
Daniel Mackler has just released all his excellent documentaries onto you tube. This is from his website http://wildtruth.net/ My name is Daniel Mackler and I am a filmmaker, writer, and musician based in New York City. I also worked for ten years as a psychotherapist Read More…
Brian Hartnett founded Hearing Voices Ireland (HVI) in 2006. In this interview on Limerick City Community Radio (LCCR) Brian talks about HVI and his viewpoint on hearing voices. Listen HERE Brian also has a music show on LCCR every Saturday Read More…
Owen Finnegan has gone through the mill so to speak and is now able to explain coherently and in great detail what it is like to suffer from a range of symptoms and disorders like Anxiety, Mild Depression, Severe Depression, Read More…
On the first week of December 2006 I had my first bout of psychotic mania. I was super energetic and delusional, thinking to myself that I was a prophet of God, one of the two witnesses and I was to Read More…
Hearing Voices in Childhood & Adolescence Helping Young People Who Hear Voices Reclaim Their Lives Monday 14 April 2014 from 6.30 – 8.00 in Boole 4, UCC A Public Talk by Rachel Waddingham, Project Manager at Mind in Camden’s Voice Read More…
HVI in partnership with Shine are running a series of workshops for voice hearers, supporters and workers around Ireland in 2014. See details below about the upcoming workshop in Athlone on March 13th. See here for poster ATHLONE HEARING VOICES WORKSHOP Read More…
HVI in partnership with Shine are running a series of workshops for voice hearers, supporters and workers around Ireland in 2014 starting in Tullamore on Thursday 6th March. See here for poster TULLAMORE HEARING VOICES WORKSHOP POSTER Here for programme TULLAMORE HEARING Read More…
Tell us what you think about the mental health services Do you use mental health services or are you significantly involved in the life of someone who does? Do you have something to say about your experience that you want the people who Read More…
To Unwell and Back In his late 20s, Greg Ralls became mentally ill and experienced first-episode psychosis. He reported a suspected homicide to police and was straightjacketed and made an involuntary patient in a locked ward of Graylands Psychiatric Hospital. Read More…
How do you deal with the voices in your head? We all have them to some extent – perhaps they’re just thoughts, comforting and easy to live with – but for some, they are menacingly real and reflect past trauma. We hear Read More…
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to hear voices in your head? Have you ever thought that people who hear voices are plain mad? If so, this documentary might just make you think twice. Listen to Jacqui Dillon featured Read More…
Shine & Hearing Voices Ireland Present HEARING VOICES WORKSHOP December 18th Longford Arms Hotel Longford Living with voices Working with people who hear voices Personal story Q&A session The workshop is open to voice hearers and people who support them, Read More…
BRIAN HARTNETT – PERSONAL RECOVERY STORY — At a Schizophrenia Ireland (now Shine) conference in Dublin in 2004, Brian gave a presentation about his own recovery story to a large audience. Brian first started hearing voices in 1990. Since then Read More…
WILL HALL PERSONAL STORY Since I was a child I’ve struggled with extreme emotions, voices, and powerful out of body experiences. I remember falling to the ground once in third grade, writhing in agony because I believed something was grabbing Read More…
Transcript of the speech given by Hywel Davies at the “Recovery into Practice: A Whole Life – Whole Systems Approach”at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, Carmarthen, Thursday 20th June 2013 My Recovery Journey Hywel Davies I am a voice Read More…
MEANINGS OF MADNESS; CRITICAL AND CREATIVE PERSPECTIVES Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Links to keynote addresses given at all the Cork Critical Voices Network Ireland conferences from 2011 to 2013 are available on the CVNI website Read More…
Recovering from voices by changing your relationship with them by Professor Marius Romme Introduction The Roots of Hearing Voices What are the influences of the traditional psychiatric care? Accepting Your Voices and Accepting Yourself How Did These Voice Hearers Manage Read More…
12th November 2014 To: National and Regional Hearing Voices Network coordinators, Hearing Voices Group Facilitators and Members Dear Friends, Intervoice requests your support and co-operation in undertaking an inventory of hearing voices groups INTERVOICE would like to ask for your Read More…
4th November 2013. Dr. Jim Lucey, Medical Director St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin talks to Sean O’Rourke of RTE 1’s Today programme about voice hearing, Schizophrenia and the clinical psychiatric perspective. Read More…
The world’s most refreshing, creative and hopeful mental health conference is coming to Melbourne this November… we hope you join us! The World Hearing Voices Congress will bring together: people who have learned to understand and live with their voices Read More…
For over ten years, Terry Lynch has worked exclusively in the field of mental health. At Athlone Literary Festival this year, he discussed the reality of overcoming mental illness and reaching a mindful state of self. Terry is a psychotherapist Read More…
Eleanor Longden of Intervoice gives a presentation on TED of how her voice hearing experience was misunderstood and how she went on to achieve a greater understanding of the experience.