All Posts by Will Hall
Madness Radio: Toby Watson on Ethical Psychotherapy
It was a long haul from being a psychiatric patient in 1992 to graduating with a masters in counseling in 2011. I flunked out of my first attempt to get a graduate degree because I was in a school that …
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April 15, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs, Non-Drug Approaches, Psychotherapy
Madness Radio: Sharna Olfman on Medicating Children Diagnosed Bipolar
Professor Sharna Olfman has researched and written extensively about children in society, including education and sexuality, and her perspective on so-called bipolar disorder is insightful and deserves wide recognition. Sharna discusses the social and economic pressures that are driving parents …
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March 19, 2012 | Categorized in: Bipolar, Bipolar, Blogs, Children and Adolescents, Disorders
Madness Radio: Grainne Humphry on the Psychiatric Incarceration of John Hunt in Ireland
Grainne was courageous to do this interview: I was struck by her strong love for John and her very deep sensitivity to the violence she has witnessed him undergo in the name of treatment. Let us all lend our hearts and passion to the international campaign to free John Hunt and to ensure that no one ever has to suffer the abuses he has suffered.
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February 1, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs
Excellent Article on Antipsychotic Drug Harm Reduction in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Matthew Aldridge, a psychiatric nurse at London’s Lambeth Hospital, just published a new article in the 2011 Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, “Addressing Non-Adherence to Antipsychotic Medication: A Harm-Reduction Approach.” This is an extraordinarily well researched clinical discussion of professional medication practice.
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January 24, 2012 | Categorized in: Blogs
New Video: Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach
I want to thank Bob Whitaker for inviting me to join the bloggers at Mad In America. As an introduction to my work I enlisted the help of Portland visionary colleagues Kent Bye, Jen Gouvea, and Jonathan Marrs to produce …
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