Bio. Ed Herzog is one of the co-founders of the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network and currently the board treasurer. He lives in Berkeley and has been a documentary filmmaker for 30 years, working primarily in the labor movement. He is on the NAMI East Bay Board of Directors and facilitates a monthly support group for family members whose loved ones hear voices and special messages and experience alternative realities. The group also explores alternatives to the medical model of mental health treatment.

Description. Ed Herzog will share his personal experiences as the co-founder of the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network and as a parent who has a son hearing voices. He will focus on the practical training needed to start and facilitate a Hearing Voices Family Support Group.

This event is free to the public. RSVP to confirm your seat. Please email southbayprojectresource@gmail.com including your name and number of people attending the event.

2015

Nev Jones 10/12/2015

Accounts from the Work & School Stories Project

Presentation by Dr. Nev Jones (Stanford) on psychosis and her work with the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network and Project Resource

When: Oct. 13th, 7:30-9pm
Where: Good Samaritan Hospital

Bio. Nev Jones PhD is a research psychologist and currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She grew up with a parent with (severe) schizophrenia and was later diagnosed with schizophrenia herself (aka “wears many hats”). Nev’s research focuses on the sociocultural determinants of disability and recovery, phenomenological and developmental variations in psychosis, and the development of interventions aimed at improving functional outcomes, particularly in early psychosis. She is a core working group member of the International Consortium on Hallucination Research, and a research affiliate with Durham University’s award-winning Hearing the Voice project. Nev is also the acting board president of the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network, and the former director of both Chicago Hearing Voices and the Lived Experience Research Network.

Description. Nev’s presentation will cover her personal (and family) experiences as well as “myths versus research” regarding psychosis, emphasizing the emerging international consensus on the variability and heterogeneity of psychotic symptoms as they play out across etiology (causes), phenomenology, course and treatment response. She will then make a case for the pressing need to “personalize” treatments for psychosis in the US and expand the array of psychosocial and rehabilitative options available. Finally, she will link the above research to her grassroots advocacy efforts with the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network and the newly formed South Bay group, Project Resource