For a meeting entitled 'Hearing the Voice: An international Interdisciplinary Workshop' to be held at Durham University on 24-25th November (360G-Wellcome-097346_Z_11_Z)

The primary objective of this workshop is to bring together recognized experts on auditory verbal hallucinations (?hearing voices?), including academic researchers from the sciences and humanities, mental health professionals, and the heads of leading service-user organizations. The workshop will be hosted by a team of Durham-based academics as part of the development of a large multidisciplinary project on voice-hearing. This gathering will have five further specific objectives: 1) To facilitate the dissemination of current leading research on voice-hearing in a range of disciplines, including clinical psychology, transcultural psychiatry, philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, anthropology, literary studies, theology, the arts and medical humanities 2) To facilitate the exchange of knowledge between disciplines 3) To reflect on the ways in which multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of voice-hearing can further our understanding of its causes, meanings, and treatments 4) To establish an outline programme of multidisciplinary work on voice-hearing, leading to further collaborative grant applications 5) To engage service-users and service-user organizations in the design and implementation of research at its earliest stages