The Congress

Speakers and debaters
Participations by Core Activities
International speakers
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Marius Romme - Netherlands
Marius Anton Joannes Romme is a Dutch psychiatrist. He is best known for his work on Hearing Voices and is considered the founder and principal theorist of the Hearing Voices Movement. Professor of community psychiatry. Author of several books on the subject of voice hearing.
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Kellie Stastny - Australia
She has been a part of the hearing Voice Movement since 2009 and apart of the Board of Intervoice since 2012 and is the current Chair. Kellie brings insight from being a proud voice hearer with her own lived experience, navigating, and recovering from the psychiatric system. She previously worked in a mental health team in a Community Health Service in regional Victoria for 6.5 years. She is in her final year of a double degree, Bachelor of Human Services and Masters of Social Work at La Trobe University. She is accomplished in presenting, speaking and training around her own lived experience and the Hearing Voices Approach. She is looking forward to sharing space and her experiences with you at the 13th World Hearing Voices Congress, Voices Echoing from Latin America.
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Caroline Marz - United States
Caroline Mazel-Carlton is a survivor of psychiatric crisis, diagnosed with psychosis, Wildflower Alliance Training Director - West Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community, Social Worker and Suicide Support Instructor. Director of Training for the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community (WMRLC), promoting a spirit of self-determination and mutual support in many parts of the world. She has been privileged to be a facilitator/coach for the "Alternatives to Suicide" approach for over five years, fostering conversations and connections around the current paradigm of "risk assessment".
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Dirk Corstens - Netherlands
Graduated in Medicine and residency in Psychiatry at Maastricht University and psychotherapist. Works in community mental health services in Maastricht. Dirk has worked with Marius Romme and Sandra Escher since 1992, and now leads the voice hearers group in Maastricht. Dirk is also working on PhD courses for hearers and professionals, and the voice dialogue method for voice hearing.
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Paul Baker - England
Graduated in Sociology and Social Work at the University of Manchester and postgraduate in Mental Health. Secretary at the International Mental Health Collaborating Network (IMHCN), coordinator of social media at Intervoice and one of the founders of Intervoice in the UK. Paul has developed projects in the field of mental health in Trieste (Italy), Serbia, Croatia, England and Wales.Held workshops in over 15 countries and published the book "The Voice Inside". He has written chapters and articles on: recovery house, people who hear voices and the pathologization of childhood life.
Brazilian Speakers
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Leonardo Duart
Psychologist graduated from PUC-Campinas. Founding member of the Grupo de Ouvidores de Vozes, Founding Director from Instituto Conduzir, coordinator of projects at Cáritas de Campinas in actions aimed at homeless people with a view to social reintegration.
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Loraine Oltmann de Oliveira
Graduated in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (2013). Master's degree from the Federal University of Paraná in Public Health. She worked as a clinical psychologist at a Psychosocial Care Center from 2014 to 2020 and currently facilitates a Voice Hearing group.
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Fabrine dos Reis Bastos
Photographer specialized in artistic portrait photography, with international awards, best portrait photography 2020 and 2021, at the international festival of Brasília. Uses dancers, children and actors in photographic compositions
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Luciane Prado Kantorski (UFPEL)
Graduated in Nursing and Midwifery from UFSM, Master's in Education from UFSM (1994) and PhD in Nursing from the University of São Paulo -EERP-Ribeirão Preto (1998). She has experience in the field of Nursing, with an emphasis on Evaluation of Mental Health Services.
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Sabrina Stefanello (UFPR)
Psychiatrist, Master and Doctor at UNICAMP. Post-doctorate in Public Health at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at UNICAMP and Post-Doctorate at the Department of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Montreal (Quebéc-Canada). She works as a professor at UFPR and supervisor of Psychiatry residents in the health network of Curitiba.
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Clarissa Corradi-Webster (USP)
Professor at (USP), Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, Department of Psychology. She is the coordinator of LePsis (Laboratory of Teaching and Research in Psychopathology, Drugs and Society). She is also a professor of the Postgraduate Program in Psychology of the same unit. Graduated in Psychology from FFCLRP-USP (1997), Master's in Community Health from FMRP-USP (2004) and PhD in Psychology from FFCLRP-USP (2009).
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Leandro Torquato Amaral
Leandro has a degree in Computer Science from SENAI in Ribeirão Preto and an Electrical and Mechanical Technician from ETEC in Ribeirão Preto-SP. He started to hear voices in 2015 and have been a CAPS-III user in Ribeirão Preto since 2016. Since 2017 Leandro has participated in the Grupo de Ouvidores de Vozes and is currently one of the mediators of the group in Ribeirão Preto-SP.
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Deivisson Vianna
Physician, Psychiatrist, Master and Doctor with a split-site doctoral program in Collective Health between the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Université de Montréal (UnM). He is currently an adjunct professor at the Department of Collective Health at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and Vice President of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health. He also coordinated the municipalization and restructuring of the Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) in Curitiba-PR (2014-2017).
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Vera Pasini - UFRGS
Psychologist, Graduated from the University of Passo Fundo (UPF/1986), Master in Social and Personality Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS/1997) and PhD in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS /2010). She worked as a Psychologist at the Nossa Senhora da Conceição Hospital. She currently works as an Adjunct Professor of the Psychology Course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
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Roberta Antunes Machado
Member of the Collective of Women Who Hear Voices (CMOV) and the Municipal Forum for the Defense of Anti-Asylum Mental Health in Pelotas and the Mental Health Interest Group at ABEN/RS. Roberta is a nurse, specialized in Family and Community Health.
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Valéria Coimbra -UFPEL
Graduated in Nursing from the Faculty of Nursing and Obstetrics of the Federal University of Pelotas (2001), Specialization in Professional Education in the Health Area (Nursing) from the National School of Public Health Sérgio Arouca (2005), Masters (2003) and Doctorate (2007). She has experience in Nursing, with an emphasis on mental health and collective health, working mainly on the following topics: evaluation of health services, work process, psychiatric nursing, family health, mental health services, organization, planning and management of health services, child and family psychosocial rehabilitation.