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Hearing Voices Network. Hearing Voices Networks, closely related to the Hearing Voices Movement, are peer -focused national organizations for people who hear voices (commonly referred to as auditory hallucinations) and supporting family members, activists and mental health practitioners. Members may or may not have a psychiatric diagnosis.
Patricia E. Deegan is an American disability-rights advocate, psychologist and researcher. She has been described as a "national spokesperson for the mental health consumer/survivor movement in the United States." [1] Deegan is known as an advocate of the mental health recovery movement (a cofounder of the National Empowerment Center) [2] and ...
Judi Chamberlin was born Judith Rosenberg in Brooklyn in 1944. She was the only daughter of Harold and Shirley Jaffe Rosenberg. The family later changed their name to Ross. Her father was a factory worker when she was a child [4] and later worked as an executive in the advertising industry.
When young children hear voices, many parents rush to the psychotherapist for an expensive battery of tests. While hearing voices can be a manifestation of schizophrenia, and so should not be ...
Appearance. The Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) is the name used by organizations and individuals advocating the "hearing voices approach", [ 1 ] an alternative way of understanding the experience of those people who "hear voices". In the medical professional literature, ‘voices’ are most often referred to as auditory verbal hallucinations.
The NEC staff is Oryx Cohen, Kimberly Ewing, Shira Collings, and Felicity Krueger. [12]The deceased advocate Judi Chamberlin was an NEC staff person. [13] [14] Chamberlin was diagnosed with depression at the age of 21 but considered herself recovered, which she attributed to having been a non-compliant patient.
Aspies For Freedom (AFF) is a solidarity and campaigning group that aimed at raising public awareness of the autism rights movement. The aim of Aspies For Freedom is to educate the public that the autism spectrum is not always a disability, and that there are advantages as well as disadvantages. [1] For this purpose, the group organizes an ...
The Gene Illusion[1] is a 2003 book by clinical psychologist Jay Joseph, [2] in which the author challenges the evidence underlying genetic theories in psychiatry and psychology. Focusing primarily on twin and adoption studies, he attempts to debunk the methodologies used to establish genetic contributions to schizophrenia, criminal behaviour ...