What if you worked with your voices and not against them? Reframing Psychosis Spectrum Experiences is a workbook for people who hear voices, written by a peer specialist who hears voices herself and a clinical psychologist.
Jeannie Bass is a Certified Peer Specialist with lived experience of voices and other psychosis spectrum experiences. She leads peer support services in the public mental health system of Massachusetts and is a trainer for the Hearing Voices Network USA. Together with psychologist Carina Iati she wrote a workbook that rests on the values of the international Hearing Voices Movement.
What the workbook offers
The book treats voices as experiences to be understood. It covers voices that are positive, neutral and distressing. Each section has reflective questions and practical strategies. Topics include voice dialogue, feeling safe in relationships, creative ways of coping, support from family, and working with voices that give commands. You can use the workbook alone, or together with a clinician, a peer worker, a family member or someone else you trust. An online course goes with the book.
Why it fits PsychosisNet
PsychosisNet has always been close to the hearing voices movement: voices often have meaning, they are linked to what someone has been through, and many people learn to live with them. This workbook turns that view into something you can do. A person with lived experience and a professional made it together, and that is the collaboration PsychosisNet stands for.
Book details: Cognella Academic Publishing, 2026, 188 pages.
This book presentation is based on information from the publisher and on published reviews.
Prof. dr. Jim van Os, Chair Division Neuroscience, Utrecht University Medical Centre. Jim works at the interface of ‘hard’ brain science, health services research, art and subjective experiences of people with ‘lived experience’ in mental healthcare.
Jim has been appearing on the Thomson-Reuter Web of Science list of ‘most influential scientific minds of our time’ since 2014. In 2014 he published his book ‘Beyond DSM-5‘, and in 2016 the book ‘Good Mental Health Care’. In 2026 he published 'Wat psychisch lijden is'.
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