Authors

Angela Sweeney was part of her local survivor movement as a teenager and young adult, and conducted her first survivor research project as an undergraduate student in 1998.  Sometime after graduating, she joined the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health to work on a study of the British Survivor Movement (On…

Dr Christina Moutsou acquired her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1999. She trained as a psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association and she has worked in one of its houses for over five years. She currenltly works in private practice and as a sessional lecturer of psychoanalysis…

Dr Lucy King trained as a biologist, but after several years of research abandoned the laboratory and microscope and turned to a more directly people-focused occupation. She trained as a psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association and remains closely involved with its teaching programme. She lives in Cambridge, where she has…

Georgina Wakefield is a media volunteer for Rethink and has helped them with many projects including their anti-stigma campaign. Anyone who hears Georgie speak or reads her books cannot help be moved by her passion to improve services for all carers and users and raise awareness of some of the…

Dirk Corstens is a social psychiatrist and psychotherapist working in community mental health services in Maastricht. He has worked with Marius Romme and Sandra Escher since 1992, and now leads a treatment facility for voice hearers in Maastricht. Dirk is also preparing a PhD on courses for voice hearers and professionals,…

Jacqui Dillon is a respected speaker, writer and activist, and has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, psychosis, dissociation and recovery. Jacqui is the national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England, Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, Honorary Research Fellow in the School…

Dr Kay Inckle is a course convener in the sociology of health and medicine at the London School of Economics and Political Science. For a number of years she worked as a service-provider in a range of health and social care contexts supporting both adults and young people, and these…

Sandra Escher, MPhil, PhD, was a science journalist and worked as a senior researcher at the University of Maastricht, focusing on children hearing voices. She is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University.

Marius Romme MD, PhD, was Professor of Social Psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Maastrict. He is now a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University. Together with Dr. Escher they focussed their research on the experience of hearing voices. This led…