LEARNING FROM THE

MANUEL GIL ELICHE

MORENO
3º PSIQUIATRÍA
VOICES IN MY HEAD H UNIVERSITARIO DE
MÓSTOLES
LEARNING FROM THE VOICES
IN MY HEAD
INTRODUCCIÓN
“Hearing voces no one else can hear isn’t a
good sign, even in the wizarding world”
 INFANCIA

“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social
compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable”
 “The day I left home for the first time to go to
university was a bright day, brimming with hope
UNIVERSIDAD and optimism. My gilded, serene mask was very
much intact, and it seemed certain this would be the
beginning of a sucessful academic carrer. Always
skilled at pleasing people…”
 ENTREVISTA CON MÉDICO
“At the point that I was beginning to negotiate a
positive relationship with the voices that I made a
disastrous mistake: I told a friend about it”

“His boredom and indifference to his dreary

recital of adolescent angst was palpable, until I metioned the voice”

“Loss of hopes, dreams, dignity and self respect. Given all that, there was really only one sane option
left, and that was to go mad”

“Later, my mother and I would be told by a consultat psychiatrist that I would have been better off
with cancer that schizophrenia, because cancer is easier to cure”
“I am dirty, I am weak, I am stupid”

“you don’t understand me”

“Well, what do you expect? I’ve

got schizophrenia”

“Eleanor’s gone. She’s gone”

PAT BRACKEN
“I was asked to describe my dreams and aspirations:
Where would I like to be in 10 years’ time? I want to
work in mental health”

“My mind, my body and spirit had worked together to craft

the best they could with the limited resources”
 MARIUS ROMME
SANDRA ESCHER
Respuesta significativas al estrés
- Establecimiento de relaciones con personas que te consideran otra persona, no un paciente
- Esperanza, optimismo y normalizar escuchar voces más que considerarlas catastrófico
- Ser aceptado por otros como un escuchador de voces, aceptándoles y a ti mismo
- Información acerca de las voces
- Rechazar el papel de víctima haciendo un balance entre ti mismo y tus voces
- Considerar las voces como una experiencia personal y tomar responsabilidad de ellas
- Reconocer y aceptar las emociones

Hearing voices is a common human experience which, althought it can cause distress, is not in itself a
sympton of illness. Distressing voices can be metaphors for problems in the hearer’s life. The voices can be
resolved by adressing the underlying emotions and conflicts that they represent
LIFE BEGINS ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF DESPAIR
“Please, don’t speak to me that way. I won’t responde you unless you’re more
respectful”

“Why are you here? Why do you want me to kill

myself? If I die, what would happen to you?

“Are you happy the way things are?”

“ For years I’d been engaged in a internal civil war”

BIBLIOGRAFÍA
DISCUSIÓN
- ¿Existen voces útiles?
- ¿Se puede distinguir las experiencias normales de las psicóticas?
- ¿Pueden tener personas normales experiencias anormales?
- ¿Se entienden mejor estas voces considerándolas como una enfermedad mental?
- Si una persona escucha voces y es evaluada por un facultativo. ¿Es fiable el
diagnóstico?
- ¿Tiene ventajas considerar estas experiencias como enfermedad mental? ¿Y
desventajas?