Will Hall, MA, DiplPW, PhD Candidate Maastricht University, is a
therapist and community development worker changing the social response
to madness. A schizophrenia diagnosis survivor and longtime organizer
with the psychiatric survivor movement, he is host of Madness Radio,
co-founder of Freedom Center, co-founder of Portland Hearing Voices,
co-founder of Hearing Voices Network USA, and past co-coordinator of The
Icarus Project.
Will has appeared in several documentary films including Crazywise,
Healing Voices, and Coming off Psych Drugs; A Meeting of Minds, and his
media appearances include the New York Times, Newsweek, Radio New
Zealand, Radio Sarajevo, and The Guardian. Will has a certificate in
Open Dialogue and a diploma in Jungian psychology, and his disability
advocacy received the Judi Chamberlin Advocacy Award, the Portland Open
Minds award, and the Stavros Center for Independent Living Disability
Rights Award. He is the author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off
Psychiatric Drugs and Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of
Madness (finalist for the finalist for the Publishers Weekly BookLife
Prize for Nonfiction 2022), as well peer-reviewed articles in the
Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Research Ethics, and chapters in
Modern Community Mental Health An Interdisciplinary Approach by Oxford
University and The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality. He
recently co-created Mad Camp, a summer camp for survivors.
www.willhall.net www.madnessradio.net www.outsidementalhealth.com
In an interview Will told the Portland Mercury weekly newspaper: "When I
was growing up, I wanted to be a magician. Then I wanted to be a
biologist, then I wanted to be a psychologist, then I wanted to be a
community organizer, then I wanted to be a philosopher. Now I’m sort of
all of them.”
www.willhall.net
www.madnessradio.net
www.outsidementalhealth.com
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