Dirk Corstens

Dirk Corstens works as a social psychiatrist and psychotherapist in his own private practice. He has taught courses on Working with Voices with Ron Coleman and Eleanor Longden in the UK, France and Australia, and with Trevor Eyles and Birgitte Bjerregaard in Denmark. He has conducted research on constructs and Talking with Voices and is collaborating in ongoing research on Talking with Voices. He was president of Intervoice for many years, until voice-hearers took over that position. Together with Peter Oud and Gert Haringsma, he set up the Voices Clinic Alkmaar in 2020. With Martijn Kole, Sanna Martha and Heleen Wadman, he delivers Peer-supported Open Dialogue for social networks.

Books by Dirk Corstens

Making Sense of Hearing Voices: A practical guide

  • £27.00
This magnificent book brings together in one volume all the theory, learning, research, wisdom from practice and practical examples of the revolutionary work of Marius Romme, Sandra Escher and Dirk Corstens into supporting people who hear voices. Challenging the fundamental premises of mainstream psychiatry, Romme, Escher and Corstens have pioneered their approach of 'making sense of voices' since the 1980s.…

Living with Voices: 50 stories of recovery

  • £19.99
Read a review from Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies Journal, December 2012: http://bit.ly/10ufKdu A new analysis of the hearing voices experience outside the illness model resulted in accepting and making sense of voices. This study of 50 stories forms the evidence for this successful new approach to working with voice hearers. This book demonstrates that it is…