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Learning To Cope And Thrive Through Psychiatric Medication Withdrawal

Will Hall is offering a free online workshop called Learning to Cope and Thrive through Psychiatric Medication Withdrawal on Friday the 5th of February at 8-9:30 am NZ time. Register on EventBrite at the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learning-to-cope-and-thrive-through-psychiatric-medication-withdrawal-tickets-135165097445

Will Hall is a counselor and advocate whose work and learning arose from his experiences of recovery from madness. He holds a Diploma and Masters Degree in Process Work from the Process Work Institute, and studies over the years have included training with Jaakko Seikkula and colleagues in Open Dialogue at the Institute for Dialogic Practice, and the WRAP facilitators’ training. He was a co-author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming of Psychiatric Drugs with the Icarus Project and is currently a PhD candidate at Maastricht University Medical Center – School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, supervised by Dr. Jim van Os doing research into alternatives to psychiatric medications.

World Antipsychotic Withdrawal Survey

Over the last couple of years, I’ve had the privilege of advising on the World Antipsychotic Withdrawal Survey and last week I met with the project lead and the statistics whizz to prepare for data analysis. You can colour me excited because it is shaping up to be huge – 4000 people and counting so far! The NZ sample is still relatively small but the survey is still open, so if this is relevant to you, do take a look and think about getting amongst it if it feels right for you.

This is a PhD research project led by Will Hall under the supervision of Jim van Os and John Read.

Find out more here: https://www.antipsychoticwithdrawalsurvey.com/