Marius Romme

Marius Anton Joannes Romme

Daniel Mackler & Marius Romme at the 17th international ISPS conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia
Born January 17, 1934
Amsterdam
Residence Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Fields social psychiatry
Institutions Maastricht University
Alma mater University of Amsterdam
Known for Hearing Voices Movement; Experience Focussed Counselling

Marius Anton Joannes Romme (born 17 January 1934, Amsterdam) is a Dutch psychiatrist. He is best known for his work on hearing voices[1] (auditory hallucinations) and regarded as the founder and principal theorist for the Hearing Voices Movement.

Romme studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam, where he also received his PhD in 1967. From 1974 to 1999 he was professor of social psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Maastricht, as well as consultant psychiatrist at the Community Mental Health Centre in Maastricht. He is now visiting professor at the Mental Health Policy Centre, Birmingham City University in Birmingham.

Romme has stated that schizophrenia "is a harmful concept" and that delusions, hearing voices and hallucinations, so-called "symptoms" of schizophrenia are not related to an illness but may be reactions to traumatic and troubling events in life.[2]

He is also credited with developing Experience Focussed Counselling together with Dr. Sandra Escher & Joachim Schnackenberg. [3]

Publications

Publications by Professor Marius Romme et al.:

See also

References

  1. Romme MA, Escher AD (1989). "Hearing voices". Schizophr Bull 15 (2): 209–16. doi:10.1093/schbul/15.2.209. PMID 2749184.
  2. Asylum Online
  3. Intervoice online

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