Relating to Voices using Compassion Focused Therapy

Dr Charlie Heriot-Maitland is a clinical psychologist, researcher and trainer at Balanced Minds, UK. For 13 years, Charlie provided psychological therapies in the UK NHS mental health services, and now offers a private CFT practice. He continues to provide supervision, training, and consultancy in the NHS, as well as other organisations across multiple sectors, including healthcare, social care, education, and charities. Dr Eleanor Longden is a service-user research manager at the Psychosis Research Unit in Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) in the UK, whose work draws upon her own experiences of recovery from trauma and psychosis. She is an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester and co-director of GMMH’s Complex Trauma and Resilience Unit.

Foreword by Professor Paul Gilbert; Some suggestions for how to use this book; PART 1: Before we start; 1. Voice-hearing: a normal human experience; 2. What is Compassion Focussed Therapy? And how can it help support voice-hearers?; PART 2: Beginning the journey; 3. Safety and safeness; 4. Developing a Compassionate Self; PART 3: The courage of compassionate relating; 5. Relating compassionately to yourself and your emotions; 6. Developing a compassionate understanding of voices; 7. Developing a compassionate relationship with your voices