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Sandra Escher (died 2021) had a PhD in medicine and was a research-journalist. Marius and Sandra organised many conferences on hearing voices and were the inspiration behind the international hearing voices movement and the World Hearing Voices Congresses. Both conducted research on adults and children who hear voices. They published…

Marius Romme is emeritus professor of social psychiatry at Maastricht University and lives in Amsterdam. Marius and Sandra organised many conferences on hearing voices and were the inspiration behind the international hearing voices movement and the World Hearing Voices Congresses. Both conducted research on adults and children who hear…

Dr. John Read worked in the UK and USA for 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental health services. He joined the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1994, where he became Director of the Clinical Psychology doctoral training programme. He held the same position at the University of…

Peter Beresford OBE is a long-term user of mental health servicse and Co-Chair of Shaping our Lives, the national independent service user-controlled organisation and network. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia. He has a longstanding involvement in issues of participation and empowerment as writer, researcher,…

Alastair Morgan is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. He has worked in the mental health field for a number of years, and is also a trained philosopher with a particular interest in Critical Theory and the philosophy of T.W. Adorno. His publications include Adorno's…

Judy Moore trained as a person-centred counsellor in the mid 1980s and taught on the postgraduate diploma in person-centred counselling at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, for many years.  She became Director of the University Counselling Service in 1998 and also became Director of the Centre for Counselling Studies,…

Beryl Malcolm works in a Child/Adolescent Mental Health Team, as well as  supervising trainee play therapists. Her background and training are in teaching, counselling and Play Therapy. She is particularly interested in ethnicity issues in cousnelling/psychotherapy, and her MA research focused on race and culture in child…