Bringing Relationships into Voice Hearing: Introducing a Tripartite Relationship Theory [Paperback]

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. Were 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

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 prodl#,