Chapter 5 from Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness by Gail A. Hornstein After two terms of plunging back into teaching, department politics, and the myriad tensions of life as an academic, I return to Britain for the annual meeting of the Hearing Voices Network. My colleagues are busy planning trips to the American Psychological Association’s annual convention; they’d be astounded if I told them I was heading off to a conference of voice hearers. I haven’t yet figured out how to bring together the two worlds I’ve been living in. During the semester, I’m a psychology professor; as soon as school ends, I’m back in the world of HVN. They’re so radically different—in style, assumptions, and structure—that I feel as if I’m traveling a lot farther away than just to England.