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The Empowerment Movement
Published in Jack A. Jenner, Hallucination-focused Integrative Therapy, 2015
The Hearing Voices Movement began in 1986 in the Netherlands at a conference for voice hearers, their friends and family, and therapists (Romme and Esher, 1989). This movement stresses the importance of finding meaning in voices and in emancipating psychiatric patients. Pivotal empowerment-based interventions involve encouraging voice hearers to accept their voices and their ownership by studying their significance and origin, regaining power over AVH through personal coping styles, and supporting voice hearers in a process of transformation from psychiatric patients to experienced experts. In 1997, the ‘Weerklank’ (Resonance Foundation) was founded and has since become an international network, called Intervoice, expanding across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Desiring occupation: Theorising the passion, creativity, and social production of everyday life
Published in Journal of Occupational Science, 2022
This conceptualisation of desire and the social production of desire offer a set of conceptual tools for occupational scientists to interrogate the socio-political elements and relational affects of everyday assemblages. Doing so might generate potential for creative desires to surface in people that typically experience constraint and disadvantage. Take for example the hearing voices movement in the mental health sector, an assemblage of activists, health professionals, and mental health service users. The movement disrupted the notion that hearing voices was abnormal or pathological, instead, being a “natural part of the human experience” (Corstens et al., 2014, p. 286). Voice hearers were encouraged to explore the meaning behind their sensory experiences, and value the voices rather than silence them pharmacologically (Corstens et al., 2014). In this example, a non-hierarchical, rhizomatic assemblage gave way to creative and experimental desire, and the generation of liberating possibilities for voice hearers. Critical occupational science that is “concerned not merely with how things are, but how they could and should be” (Farias & Laliberte Rudman, 2016, p. 35) is the social production of a desire for change. Desire produces the analysis of socio-political processes that block flows of occupation, recognising that “roadblocks designate thresholds” that can be disrupted and transformed (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 190). Liberated desire has the potential to unsettle oppressive structures and create ruptures in arborescent systems (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987). Desire, as a social force and relational affect, has the potential to transform assemblages; this is the creative potential of desire.
Art Therapy and Disability Studies
Published in Art Therapy, 2020
Chun-shan (Sandie) Yi, Catherine Hyland Moon
Chris Wood introduces the Hearing Voices Movement, which disrupts the dominance of pharmacology by privileging individuals’ rights to determine the significance of the voices they hear. Noel King addresses the barriers faced by the Deaf community in accessing art therapy. Sadie Wilcox challenges deficit narratives by elevating the visibility of lived experiences through participatory arts. Sara Miller argues for disability arts as an alternative, disability-led and disability-centered framework.
Hearing Voices Movement and Art Therapy
Published in Art Therapy, 2020
HVM originated in Maastricht, Holland in the late 1980s and is built upon collaborative learning between people with lived-experience, their family members, and practitioners from a range of mental health disciplines. The names “Hearing Voices Movement” and the “Maastricht Approach” are used interchangeably.