Sandra Escher
Academic
1945 –
Who is Sandra Escher?
Alexandre Dorothée Marie Adriaan Charlotte Escher is a Dutch psychiatrist.
Sandra Escher was first trained at the School of Journalism in Utrecht, before she began to work at the University of Maastricht, department of Social Psychiatry. She became also a senior staff member at the Community mental Health Centre in Maastricht in 1987. Since that time she works together with Marius Romme on the hearing voices project. With Romme she wrote two books which have been translated into several languages. With him she developed the Maastricht Interview for Voice hearers. Sandra organised eight annual well attended congresses and helped voice hearers to write their presentations. In 1999 she became an honorary research fellow at the University of Central England in Birmingham. Sandra began a 3-year follow-up on 80 children hearing voices. On this research she got her M.Phil and PhD in Birmingham and she got a PhD at the University of Maastricht. At present she is co-director of Intervoice. Together with Wilma Boevink she edited the book: ‘Making sense of self-harm’. Since 2002 she is participating in an international teaching project funded by the European community.
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- Born
- Jun 14, 1945
The Hague - Nationality
- Netherlands
- Lived in
- Netherlands
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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