become transmuted and embodied as voices is an area of study which poses problems to atomized conceptions of the psychological subject. It is inviting more inventive, distributed, mediated and trans-subjective models of mind and matter, which might allow a purchase on possible mechanisms of social, psychological and biological transmission. This includes debates on the intergenerational transmission of trauma, which challenge strict boundaries and separations between the historical and the personal, the psychological and the social and the material and immaterial. These debates are shaping a trans-disciplinary field of study which works with more embodied, embedded and distributed models of processes seen to confound distinctions between the material and immaterial. These debates draw from cultural theory, philosophy, the practices and lived experience of voice hearers, psychoanalysis, affect theories, body studies, geography and sociological re-imaginings of what it means to enter into suggestive relations with another, human and non-human. What is at stake is the vexed problematic of subjectivity and how the sciences and sociology can incorporate more relational models of subjectivity. This is necessary if we are to address the mechanisms through which the signalling of environments across time and space, which are primarily experienced in registers that exceed conscious perception occurs occur. These issues have also been recognised by anthropologists as being an important and key area of study across epigenetics and the humanities. Work on historical trauma and the intergenerational transmission of trauma challenges the more molecularized conceptions of the body and embodiment which underpin how environment is being conceptualized, understood and acted upon within the field of epigenetics. This is raised as an important psychosocial issue, which is missed by reducing mind to molecularized notions of matter (see Lock, 2015). It is also missed by those mechanisms of transmission which are framed as biogenetic rather than dissociative (see Longden et al, 2012). Epigenetics is therefore one area or attractor which holds the promise to challenge these issues, but only if the psychological and importantly more relational and transsubjective models of embodied subjectivity are modelled. These erasures and their disqualification return in the controversies surrounding voice hearing and qualify and re-qualify what is at stake in theorising
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