Will Hall (born 1966) is an American mental health advocate,[1] counselor, writer, and teacher. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he is involved in the recovery approach in mental health and is an organizer within the psychiatric survivors movement.[2][3] Hall advocates the recovery approach to mental illness and is involved in the treatment and social response to psychosis.
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In 1996, he worked in the planning department of the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy in Portland, Oregon.
In 1997, he became a student at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. After another mental health crisis in 1999 precipitated in part by what he describes as the school's stigma towards psychiatric survivors and by the release of the film The Matrix, he left school and spent six months at the alternative residential facility, Burch House,[12] in New Hampshire. In 2000, Hall moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he worked for five years at Broadside Bookshop.[13]
In 2001, he began speaking publicly about his mental health experiences, and with Oryx Cohen co-founded and did peer counseling at the Freedom Center in Northampton, a support, advocacy, and human rights activism community run by people with psychiatric diagnoses.
He is host of "Madness Radio", an interview format radio show which began on VFR and has been syndicated on the Pacifica Radio Network, including KBOO in Oregon, KRFP in Idaho, and WOOL Black Sheep Radio in Vermont.[16][17]
From 2004 to 2009 he was on the co-coordinator collective of The Icarus Project, and he is author of Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, published by Freedom Center and The Icarus Project.[18][19]
He is assistant director of Portland Hearing Voices in Portland, Oregon.[20] Hall has worked as a consultant for Mental Disability Rights International in Mexico and Argentina; has taught at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, Austria and Ljubljana, Slovenia; and has given talks and trainings in more than 35 countries.[21]
Hall has a counseling, coaching and therapy practice. Hall has a Master of Arts in Process Work (MAPW) from the Process Work Institute in Portland, Oregon (2011) and a certificate in Open Dialogue through the Institute of Dialogic Practice in the village of Haydenville, Williamsburg, Massachusetts (2012).[22] He is currently a PhD candidate at Maastricht University School of Mental Health and Neuroscience working in psychiatric epidemiology with Professor Jim van Os, and an advisor of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal.[23]
Hall, Will (March 2013). Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: Will Hall: 9780980070927: Amazon.com: Books. Icarus Project. ISBN978-0980070927.
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