Researchers investigate what it means to 'hear voices'

Hearing the Voices project draws on scientists, writers and readers for survey of 'wrongly stigmatised phenomenon'

Children will often have imaginary friends, the recently bereaved sometimes hear their loved ones and for some people voices in their head can be a horrible, destabilising ordeal.

The full gamut of experiences are to be explored in detail at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival, in a project investigating why and how people hear voices when no-one is speaking.

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