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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 _____________________________________________________________________ If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!): https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter