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Olga Runciman
The Hearing Voices Network: An Example of a Postpsychiatric Future?

Peter Cambell, a psychiatric survivor, coined the term postpsychiatry when he in an anthology (1996) tried to imagine a world after psychiatry. This concept was later taken up by the Critical and postpsychiatric Network in the UK in close cooperation with the HVN. My talk, based on my thesis, will look at why the HVN had to move beyond psychiatry and embrace the postpsychiatric perspective. This will be illustrated through vignettes into the lives of those who have typically been labeled schizophrenic and whose voices have traditionally been silenced.

Olga Runciman is the Chair of the Danish Hearing Voices Network as well as psychiatric nurse and now psychologist. She has worked extensively with trauma and abuse in relation to voice hearing and other unusual experiences and do so from a critical psychiatric perspective. She sees the hearing voices movement as postpsychiatric initiative, working towards the recognition of human rights while offering hope, empowerment and access to making sense of one’s experiences within the context of ones lived life.