Eleanor Longden was for a time a valued trustee of Soteria, leaving the role when she needed more time to develop her important research and writing. She is justly famous for her TED talk on ‘The voices in my head’ (2013) which has now clocked up over 5million views. As a research psychologist she has worked with fellow psychologist Charlie Heriot-Maitland to bring compassion based approaches to the voice hearing experience, and more broadly to promote understanding, kindness and acceptance for voice hearing and voice hearers. This book presents their ideas and acts as a valuable guide.
End of year message
At the end of 2024, the team is in the process of getting to know one another as a new team of trustees. We plan to meet in February 2025 to clarify roles and set goals for the next 1 to 5 years. While we have been working hard on the research grant that officially...