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Training & Counselling on: Making Sense of Voices

Published via MIND Publications

Romme & Escher (2000) Making Sense of Voices; A guide for mental health professionals working with voice hearers.

The application of the book` s guidelines is central to efc Workshops.

The next efc workshop part I

The efc Institute currently offers training in both German and English. The next workshop for the first part in experience focussed counselling is going to be held at the Hanns-Lilje Haus, Knochenhauerstrasse 33, Hanover, Germany, on 17th and 18th September 2010. It will be presented by Joachim Schnackenberg, Suzanne Engelen and Senait Debesay (click here for efc online registration). The efc Institute also offers in-house training or info sessions at your request.

The workshop is recognised by the Psychotherapeutic Association of the States of Lower Saxony & Bremen with 18 points for further training.

The next efc workshop part II

The next efc workshop on the second part in experience focussed counselling will take place on the 13th & 14th November 2010 in the Hanns-Lilje-Haus, Hannover, Germany. The workshop will be presented by Joachim Schnackenberg, Suzanne Engelen and Senait Debesay (for efc online registration).

The workshop is recognised by the Psychotherapeutic Association of the States of Lower Saxony & Bremen with 20 points for further training.

"The influence that the Dutch psychiatrist Marius Romme, whose work instigated the Hearing Voices Network, has had on academic research is in no small part attributable to his discovery that voice-hearers profess a range of interpretations of and attitudes about their experiences. It came as a surprise to many that there existed people who heard voices who were not ill and who did not consider themselves to be ill." (Daniel B. Smith, Muses, Madmen, and Prophets. Rethinking the history, science, and meaning of auditory hallucination, p. 217).