Reframing Psychosis Spectrum Experiences

About this book

Reframing Psychosis Spectrum Experiences: A Collaborative Workbook for Hearing Voices bridges lived experience and clinical understanding to offer an innovative approach to working with voice-hearing and related experiences.Grounded in the values of the International Hearing Voices Movement and informed by trauma-informed, recovery-oriented principles, this experiential guide invites readers to move beyond symptom-focused frameworks toward curiosity, connection, and meaning-making. The workbook explores a wide range of voice-hearing experiences-positive, neutral, and distressing-and provides an array of reflective prompts and practical strategies to support understanding and self-determination.Designed for flexibility, it can be used with a clinician, peer specialist, family member, or trusted other, or independently as a reflective tool. Chapters integrate lived experience approaches with clinical practice, covering topics such as voice dialogue, relational safety, creative coping strategies, and family support. Readers will also find innovative approaches for working with command voices and transforming challenging relationships with voices into opportunities for understanding and empowerment. Each section encourages exploration of personal meaning and collaborative ways of working with voices, rather than against them.Written in accessible language and grounded in years of collaboration between a peer specialist who hears voices and a clinical psychologist, Reframing Psychosis Spectrum Experiences offers a compassionate framework for learning, reflection, and change-whether in therapy, education, or everyday life.The accompanying online course for clinicians, supporters, and voice-hearers, Reframing Psychosis Spectrum Experiences provides learners with immersive simulations drawing from real-life voice hearing experiences to provide insight into the diversity of these experiences.