Marius Romme is a Dutch psychiatrist. Romme’s career, working alongside Sandra Escher, has focused on the subjective and social experience of hearing voices. He argues that hearing voices is not a sign of mental illness, but points to other life problems; that exploring the meaning of voices and talking about them is often helpful; and that more people hear voices in absence, rather than presence, of a psychiatric diagnosis. Romme was instrumental in the foundation and development of the Hearing Voices Network in the 1980s, which has since grown into an international movement.
further reading
Romme, M. A., & Escher, A. D. (1989). Hearing voices. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 15(2), 209-216.
Romme, M. A., Honig, A., Noorthoorn, E. O., & Escher, A. D. (1992). Coping with hearing voices: an emancipatory approach. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 161(1), 99-103.
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