Alexandre Dorothée Marie Adriaan Charlotte Escher (14 June 1945 – 31 May 2021) was a Dutch mental health advocate and researcher. Early life, family and education Sandra Escher was born in The Hague, the Netherlands. She trained at the School of Journalism in Utrecht. Sandra began a three-year follow-up on 80 children hearing voices. On this research she earned her MPhil and PhD in Birmingham. She earned her PhD at the University of Maastricht. Career Escher 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. She was a co-director of Intervoice. Together with Wilma Boevink, she edited the book Making Sense of Self-Harm (2001). Since 2002, she participated in an international teaching project funded by the European community. She developed a module which trains voices hearers to use their experience to train professionals and uses the module to train experts by experience now. She was trainer in the Maastricht Interview. She is also credited with developing Experience Focussed Counselling together with Marius Romme and Joachim Schnackenberg. Personal life and demise Escher died 31 May 2021 in Amsterdam at age 75. Publications Publications by Dr. Sandra Escher et al.: Escher, A.D.M.A.C., Romme, M.A.J., Breuls, M., Driessen, G. (1987). Maatschappelijk kwetsbaar en langdurig psychiatrisch ziek zijn. Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, 29:5, 266–281. Escher, A.D.M.A.C., Romme, M.A.J. (1989). Stemmen horen. Positieve effecten van leren omgaan met stemmen. Tijdschrift voor Ziekenverpleging 24, p. 784-788. Escher, A.D.M.A.C., Romme, M.A.J. (1991). Het dagboek als communicatiemiddel bij auditieve hallucinaties. Tijdschrift voor Ziekenverpleging (TVZ) 15 augustus 1991 543-547 Escher., A.D.M.A.C. (1993). Stemmen horen: ziekte, gave, topervaring of fase in een groeiproces? Klankspiegel, maart 1993. Escher, A., Romme, M. (1998). "Small talk: voice-hearing in Children". Open Mind July/August. Escher, A., Romme, M., Buiks, A., Delespaul, Ph., Van Os, J. (2002a). Independent course of childhood auditory hallucinations: a sequential 3-year follow-up study. British Journal of Psychiatry. 181 (suppl. 43), s10-s18. Escher, A., Romme,