New Beginnings: Reimagining Psychosis Services & Systems in the US

ISPS-US 23rd Annual Conference | November 1-3, 2024 | University of Pittsburgh & Duquesne University | Pittsburgh, PA & Hybrid Online | Preliminary Schedule

Will Hall, MA, DIplPW, Phd Candidate

Maastricht University School for Mental Health and Neuroscience

About me

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, will is trained in Jungian psychology and Open Dialogue. He is host of Madness Radio, co-founder of Freedom Center, co-founder of Hearing Voices Network USA, past co-coordinator of The Icarus Project, and author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs and Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness. He lives in Northern California. 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.”

My Speakers Sessions

1:30pm EDT

From Crack to Psychedelics: Frontiers in Psychosis Work (In-Person Only) Union Room 613Will Hall, MA, DIplPW, Phd Candidate • Zac Mucha, LCSW

11:30am EST

Breaking the Taboo on Group Corruption and Misconduct: Empowerment Or Burnout? (In-Person Only) Union Room 613Will Hall, MA, DIplPW, Phd Candidate