"Over a period of thirteen months in the late 2010s, forty people in the North-East of England sat down to speak with a researcher about their experience of hearing voices. For the most part these conversations took place in domestic settings-across kitchen tables, in bedsits and hostels, front rooms and lounges-and lasted for between twenty minutes and nearly two hours. The individuals who had chosen to give of their time and insight had all been hearing voices over the previous six months and had all sought help from local Early Intervention in Psychosis Services. The researchers who arrived with their encrypted voice recorders were gathering data as part of a study seeking a deeper understanding of how voice-hearing experiences in the context of psychosis change over time. The audio recordings of these interviews capture a slice of these embodied multi-perspectival encounters; the transcriptions distil dialogues in flesh and blood into carefully formatted words on a page. It is this process of transformative recording that makes a certain kind of listening possible"-- Provided by publisher.