Bringing Relationships into Voice Hearing Introducing a Tripartite Relationship Theory

Bringing Voice Hearing Into Relationships: Introducing a Tripartite Approach  Part 1: Preface  1. Introduction: an Overview of Voice Hearing  2. The Bigger Picture: Mental Healthcare ‘treatment’ of Voice Hearing  Part 2: Tripartite Relationship Theory  3. Hearing the ‘personal Bully’: Voice Hearing Experiences  4. Experiences of Supporting People Distressed by Voice Hearing  5. We’re in It Together: Understanding Voices Hearing Through a Tripartite Voice Hearer – Voice – Practitioner Relationship  Part 3: Putting the Tripartite Relationship Theory Into Practice  6. Phases of Voice Hearing and Voice Profiling  7. Mapping: Life and Voices  8. Communicating With Voices: Talking With Voices and Mark-making  9. Nurturing Helpful Relationships  10. Concluding Comments

Biography

Rob Allison, PhD, is an academic and mental health nurse. He has many years of experience working with and learning from people distressed by voices. He developed a tripartite relationship-grounded theory to help understand and support voice hearing experiences.

Ruth Lafferty, MSc, is an academic and hears voices. She uses her lived experience, creative practice, and psychotherapy training to inform her teaching work with voice hearers and practitioners.

‘Bringing Relationships into Voice Hearing is an important book which will enlighten and inspire many mental health practitioners, people who hear voices and family members. There is a good balance between theoretical material practical uses of the Tripartite approach and personal reflections and examples of different ways to use the approach. I think it should be in every mental health service Library and available to all practitioners who work with voice hearers.’

Rufus May, PhD, consultant clinical psychologist

‘Bringing Relationships into Voice Hearing is a tour de force, rich in insight, warmth and compassion. Allison and Rafferty's focus on the dynamic tripartite relationships between voice hearers, their voices and practitioners makes an important contribution to the theory and practice of relational approaches to voice hearing that will make a real difference to people's lives. Drawing on lived experience of voice hearing, in-depth empirical research, and the wisdom produced through practical workshops delivered over many years, this book is an inspiration as well as a guide to effecting positive change for people who are distressed by their voices.’

Angela Woods, Professor of Medical Humanities and director of the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University