Dirk Corstens Author

Marius Romme is emeritus professor of social psychiatry at Maastricht University and lives in Amsterdam.

Sandra Escher (died 2021) had a PhD in medicine and was a research-journalist.

Dirk Corstens works as a social psychiatrist and psychotherapist in his own private practice.

Marius and Sandra organised many conferences on hearing voices and were the inspiration behind the international hearing voices movement and the World Hearing Voices Congresses. Both conducted research on adults and children who hear voices. They published four books and several articles and gave numerous lectures on hearing voices. Together they developed and delivered training courses for counsellors and voice-hearers in the Netherlands and many other countries.

Dirk has taught courses on Working with Voices with Ron Coleman and Eleanor Longden in the UK, France and Australia, and with Trevor Eyles and Birgitte Bjerregaard in Denmark. He has conducted research on constructs and Talking with Voices and is collaborating in ongoing research on Talking with Voices. He was president of Intervoice for many years, until voice-hearers took over that position. Together with Peter Oud and Gert Haringsma, he set up the Voices Clinic Alkmaar in 2020. With Martijn Kole, Sanna Martha and Heleen Wadman, he delivers Peer-supported Open Dialogue for social networks.