Will Hall MA, DiplPW

Will Hall, MA, DiplPW, PhD Candidate Maastricht University, is a therapist and trainer internationally recognized for his innovative work with psychosis treatment, psychiatric medications, and changing the social response to madness. He is host of Madness Radio on KBOO FM in Oregon, co-founder of Freedom Center, co-founder of Portland Hearing Voices, past Board member of the Hearing Voices Network and of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Healthcare, and a past co-coordinator of The Icarus Project.
Will was trained in Open Dialogue at the Institute for Dialogic Practice and holds a Diploma in Arnold Mindell’s Process Oriented Psychology. A schizophrenia-diagnosis survivor who was forced into treatment at San Francisco’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Will is a longtime organizer with the international psychiatric survivor movement, and has appeared in several documentary films including Crazywise, Healing Voices, and Coming off Psych Drugs; A Meeting of Minds.