Links

Information about organisations committed to empowerment, recovery and emanciapation

Asylum Associates – the action arm of Asylum Working towards a social firm for training, conferences and publishing, advocacy and community facilitation

Centre for Community Mental health (Birmingham, UK) - works to improve services and life opportunities for people with severe and enduring mental health problems. CCMH concentrates on tackling social exclusion and the development of innovative approaches to service provision through training, education and research

Coming Off Medication - aims to give you up to date information about psychiatric medication, how it functions and the withdrawal process

International Centre for Recovery Action - promotes recovery for people with mental health problems and issues

Icarus Project - envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of extreme states of consciousness.

INTAR - gathers prominent survivors, professionals, family members, and advocates from around the world to work together for new clinical and social practices towards emotional distress and what is often labeled as psychosis.

International Mental Health Collaborating Network towards Community Mental Health and Citizenship - an International Non Governmental Organisation founded by Mental Health Organisations and individuals who have developed good practices services in community mental health based on the whole system approach

Madness Radio: Voices And Visions from Outside Mental Health - brings you personal experiences of ‘madness’ from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments, and also features authors, advocates, scientists, and artists. Hosted by Will Hall.

MadNOTBad – Website for sharing experiences & creativity - is a space for those affected by mental ill health and distress to share their experiences, opinions and creative talent online

Mental Health Forum – The friendliest place on the web to meet and discuss anything related to mental health, includes forum on hearing voices

MindFreedom International - a nonprofit organization that unites 100 sponsor and affiliate grassroots groups with thousands of individual members to win human rights and alternatives for people labeled with psychiatric disabilities.

National Empowerment Center – carries a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people with lived experience with mental health issues, trauma, and extreme states.

No Free Lunch - health care providers who believe that pharmaceutical  promotion should not guide clinical practice. Our mission is to encourage health care providers to practice medicine on the basis of scientific evidence rather than on the basis of pharmaceutical promotion.

Pat Deegan PhD & Associates - helping people work with psychiatrists to arrive at the best decisions for treatment and recovery.

Person First Solutions - Mental Health Training, Consultancy & Clinical Services

Psychminded – for all who work in psychiatry, psychology and mental health

Schizophrenia Drug-free Crisis Centre & Helpline (Adelaide, Australia)

Scottish Recovery Network - designed to raise awareness of recovery from mental health problems in Scotland

Tidal Model (UK)

World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP)


Websites of individuals associated with the worldwide hearing voices movement

Ron Coleman website - has been active in the field of mental health since 1991, when affecting his own recovery from mental illness, he is a trainer and consultant and pioneer  of the worldwide hearing voices movement

Dirk Corstens website – chair of INTERVOICE and psychiatrist, provides lectures, courses, group workshops and individual treatment regarding hearing voices

Jacqui Dillon website - Writer, campaigner & international trainer, specialising in hearing voices, trauma and dissociation

Will Hall Website – co-founder of USA Hearing Voices Network. A mental diversity counselor and consultant with a private therapy practice based in Portland Oregon

Gail Hornstein website co-founder of USA Hearing Voices Network. Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts (USA)

Rufus May website - in order to help inform people who may have seen the film “The Doctor Who Hears Voices”

Marius Romme and Sandra Escher website – Founders of a new approach in which accepting and making sense of the hearing voices experience makes recovery for patients hearing voices possible

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