Hearing Voices Movement - Living With Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery

The book Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery was published in 2009. The book is a study based on the stories of 50 voice hearers who claim to have recovered. The accounts are intended to form an evidence base for the effectiveness of hearing voices approach alongside an analysis of the hearing voices experience outside the illness model, resulting in accepting and making sense of voices. Living with Voices seeks to demonstrate that it is possible to overcome problems with hearing voices and to take back control of ones life.

The central message of the book is that the path to recovery from overwhelming voices can be achieved by addressing the main problems voice-hearers describe — the threats, the feelings of powerlessness, the anxiety of being mad — and helping them to find their way back to their emotions and spirituality and to realise their dreams. This book also claims to hold true for those who have been given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. At the heart of this book are the stories of the 50 people who have recovered from the distress of hearing voices, and how they have changed their relationship with their voices in order to reclaim their lives.