Sandra Escher

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 four books and several articles and gave numerous lectures on hearing voices. Together they developed and delivered training courses for counsellors and voice-hearers in the Netherlands and many other countries.

Books by Sandra Escher

Young People Hearing Voices: What you need to know and what you can do

  • £22.00
This book has replaced Children Hearing Voices. The content remains unchanged. Listen to and interview with Rachel Waddingham, a contributor to the book who works with children hearing voices: http://bit.ly/YjA9my Young People Hearing Voices is a unique, innovative book providing support and practical solutions for the experience of hearing voices. It is in two parts,…

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…

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.…