Hearing Voices
Title | Hearing Voices PDF eBook |
Author | John Watkins |
Publisher | Michelle Anderson Publishing |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Auditory hallucinations |
ISBN | 9780855723903 |
The issues surrounding mental health in Australia have for the past year created a great deal of exposure in the media. Andrew Denton's programme Enough Rope recently devoted an entire programme to the problems of Hearing Voices. This book contains a wealth of information of great practical value to people who hear voices as well as to those who simply wish to learn more about this fascinating aspect of human psychology. It also addresses many complex questions regarding personal identity, the nature of consciousness, the relationship between mind and brain and the place of spirituality in human life - issues which will be of interest to all thoughtful readers. John Watkins is an internationally-known and respected counsellor and educator whose main professional interest is in exploring and promoting holistic approaches to the development and maintenance of mental Health. In this latest book, he provides: a detailed description of a wide variety of voice hearing experiences, an overview of the theories accounting for how and why this happens, a range of practical techniques for coping with or stopping voices, guidelines for applying spiritual discernment to hearing voices, and strategies for optimising the personal value of voice hearing experiences.
Hearing Voices
Title | Hearing Voices PDF eBook |
Author | John Watkins |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Auditory perception |
ISBN | 9780855722883 |
Provides information about a variety of 'voice hearing' situations and conditions and gives an overview of theories which attempt to account for how and why people hear disembodied voices. Presents practical techniques for coping with or stopping disturbing voices, guidelines for applying spiritual discernment to experiences involving voices and creative strategies for optimising the personal value of voice hearing experiences. Includes references, bibliography and index. Author is a counsellor whose other publications include 'Living with Schizophrenia'.
Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine
Title | Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher C. H. Cook |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2018-12-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0429750943 |
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God.
Children Hearing Voices
Title | Children Hearing Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Escher |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Auditory hallucinations |
ISBN | 9781906254353 |
Unique book providing support and solutions. It is in two parts, one part for voice-hearing children, the other for carers.
The Voices Within
Title | The Voices Within PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Fernyhough |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0465096816 |
We live immersed in thought. But do we actually know what a thought is? To answer this question, psychology professor Charles Fernyhough draws on everything from neuroscience to literary history to grasp the true nature of this most inscrutable of acts: thinking. Whether a medieval saint who hears voices or a writer absorbed in an imagined world, a daydreamer riding the subway or a captivated reader, we experience thought as a creative inner dialogue featuring multiple voices. Fernyhough uses this conception to demystify mental illness, showing that imagining voices is intimately linked to the feeling of artistic production. Drawing on literature, film, and psychology, as well as cognitive science, The Voices Within is a poetic venture into the depths of our mind. It will revolutionize the way we hear and understand the voices in our heads.
Living with Voices
Title | Living with Voices PDF eBook |
Author | M. A. J. Romme |
Publisher | Gwasg y Bwthyn |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9781906254223 |
Provides the evidence to show it's possible to overcome problems with hearing voices and take back control of one's life.
Hearing Voices
Title | Hearing Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Simon McCarthy-Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 471 |
Release | 2012-04-05 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1107007224 |
A comprehensive exploration of the history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations).