Will Hall of Madness Radio hosts Talk Radio on KBOO 90.7FM In Portland Oregon. His guest is a former Oregon State Hospital patient now living in the community under the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) after taking the “guilty except for insanity” plea. The show discusses how the antiquated PSRB system needs to be reformed.
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Will Hall presento una taller en español llamada “Nuevas Perspectivas Sobre Bipolar y Esquizofrenia,” como parte de la Dia De Salud Mental Latina y Bienestar Familiar en Portland Oregon.
Gracias a Odelia Garcia por la introduccion, y a Diana Ospina por su apoyo en arreglar el evento!
Se puede escuchar y bajarlo aqui:
“Madness and Mental Diversity: Psychosis, Bipolar, and Schizophrenia As Field Evolution” was a free talk on Process Work and psychosis I was invited to give at the local Evolver meeting in Portland Oregon on Dec. 7, 2011, introduced by Kent Bye. More than 50 people showed up in a beautiful private Portland home and we had a great time. You can listen to an audio file here, and below is the description of the talk.
https://www.madnessradio.net/audio-extra/WillHallMentalDiversityEvolverPortland12-7-2011.mp3
What if experiences labeled bipolar or schizophrenia are instead invitations to collaborate on mutual growth and evolution? What if “madness” is a purposeful and self-organizing potential for broader change?
Conventional frameworks view a “psychotic” disconnect from reality as a regression to an earlier developmental stage, a deficit/imbalance in normal functioning, or an excess of perception. Using Process Oriented Psychology, this Evolver special presentation will explore the meaning of “severe mental illness” and challenge us to rethink our relationship to extreme states within and around us. It will also offer a historical consideration of the psychedelic experience to help understand how it relates to psychosis.
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Jen Gouvea and Kent Bye joined Will Hall on 12-09-11 for a KBOO FM 8-9am Talk Radio call-in show, with the topic “Surviving Holiday Season Family Conflict.” We took phone-in calls and gave ideas about how to deal with family difficulties in a time that’s stressful for many people. (The poster appeared in our dreamscape a couple of days later when we went to see Hugo!)
Jen is a Flower Essence and astrological counselor and she and Kent are both Shamanic Breathwork facilitators. You can find out more about their work at www.engagedheart.com.
Listen to the show here:
https://www.madnessradio.net/audio-extra/TalkRadioWillHallJenGouveaKentBye12-9-2011.mp3
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Process Work faculty member Joe Goodbread has extensive experience working with extreme states of consciousness from a non-pathologizing and deeply compassionate perspective. This workshop recording is from the 2011 INTAR (www.intar.org) conference in Toronto Canada, and was introduced by Will Hall.
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On November 11 2011 Will Hall hosted KBOO’s Talk Radio live from Occupy Portland at the encampment at Chapman square, the day before the police eviction of the camp.
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How can we truly help combat veterans facing the aftermath of war? Is veteran trauma a sign of mental illness, or a healthy response to violent situations? Are medications and therapy the answer?
Paula Caplan, author of When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans, discusses healing the wounds of war by listening to the stories of veterans in our communities.
http://whenjohnnyandjanecomemarching.weebly.com
http://www.paulajcaplan.net
Why are nearly a third of all elders in nursing homes given anti-psychotic drugs, despite life threatening side effects? Are medications being used as chemical restraints? Can nursing homes be places of dignity — or should they be abolished?
Carole Hayes-Collier was diagnosed schizophrenic at 19 and left to a lifetime of hospitalization. When she recovered, the abuses she witnessed inspired her to join the Gray Panthers and dedicate her life to elder rights and mental health.
http://graypanthers.org
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119672919018312521.html
http://www.canhr.org/stop-drugging
How common are suicidal feelings? Is a psychiatric illness behind suicidal despair — or a meaningful and even spiritual life crisis? Does forced hospitalization really provide help?
Suicide attempt survivor David Webb, author of Thinking About Suicide: Contemplating and Comprehending the Urge to Die, discusses how speaking openly about suicidal feelings, rather than reacting with panic and fear, is the best form of suicide prevention.
http://www.jungcircle.com/DWebb.html
http://thinkingaboutsuicide.org
After Robert Whitaker’s visit to Oregon last year several of us in the peer recovery mental health movement worked together to create a statement about medication use and alternatives.
Please check it out, spread the word, and click the link to sign onto the statement.
More than 450 people filled the Unitarian Church in Portland Oregon February 10th for the Rethinking Psychiatry event. Robert Whitaker keynoted the evening, followed by a panel with Beckie Child, Director of the Mental Health America of Oregon; Cindi Fisher, Movement of Mothers Standing – Up -Together: Taking Back Our Children; Chris Gordon, Assistant professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Medical Director of Mental Health Advocacy; Gina Nikkel, Director of the Oregon Association of Community Mental Health Programs; and Will Hall, Director of Portland Hearing Voices.
Listen to the entire evening’s talks here:
https://www.madnessradio.net/audio-extra/RethinkingPsychiatryPDX2-10-11Complete.mp3
Listen to Robert Whitaker’s talk here:
https://www.madnessradio.net/audio-extra/RethinkingPsychiatryPDX2-10-11RobertWhitaker.mp3
Listen to Will Hall’s talk here:
https://www.madnessradio.net/audio-extra/RethinkingPsychiatryPDX2-10-11WillHall.mp3
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I hosted the early morning drive time Talk Radio show on KBOO here in Portland on Jan. 17, celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The topic was the “psychology of racism” and the show took live callers, you can download and listen to it here:
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What is reality? Why do people in extreme states feel connected to the universe, and experience uncanny and even supernatural events? Does quantum physics have something to teach us about madness? What if therapists were like indigenous tribal shamans, entering into clients’ “psychotic” worlds as if stepping into a dream?
Arnold Mindell studied with pioneering scientists Richard Feynman and Norbert Wiener and then became a Jungian therapist and founder of Process Oriented Psychology. He discusses his more than 40 years of work with individuals and groups, including people diagnosed with psychosis, and the ancient belief in a purposeful dreaming reality behind everyday events.
http://www.aamindell.net/blog/books#arny
http://www.processwork.org/
http://www.sonic.net/~billkirn/mindell_interview.html
The FDA hearings turned out very positively for the anti-electroshock movement, you can read more here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/28/AR2011012806328.html
This is the public comment I submitted to the FDA panel:
I am a therapist, advocate, and have recovered from a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Please listen to the voices of people harmed by ECT and limit its use, and put ECT devices in a more restricted category as a step towards ECT’s elimination.
My father lost memory, lost parts of his personality, and was deeply traumatized by his ECT treatments. His suffering caused great damage to our family. As a therapist I have met many clients also harmed, and as an advocate and public speaker I have met many more. There is a worldwide movement against ECT which deserves to be heard – in what other area of medicine does a treatment generate such strong opposition from people who have received it? Ignoring this outcry is a shameful throwback to the era of lobotomy and insulin coma therapy, when patient’s experience was routinely disregarded.
ECT was recommend to me when “all other treatments had failed,” yet the hospital had not even begun to try any alternative treatments, they had only tried a series of medications. There is an abundance of effective and safe alternatives to ECT that deserve support. ECT device manufacturers have a long history of improper influence on the science and regulation surrounding ECT, and industry manipulation deeply corrupts research claims of ECT effectiveness (as discussed in Linda Andre’s excellent book Doctors of Deception).
Short term benefits are attributable to the paradoxical effects of head injury, placebo, and expectations by providers. There is no research evidence of any kind that ECT treats or corrects any disease process. Do not be part of the same historic blunder that medicine made when lobotomy was widely supported and even earned its inventor the Nobel Prize. Do not go along with biased and inaccurate research and industry advocates. Do not ignore the overwhelming evidence that ECT is harmful. Move to limit the use of ECT, classify the devices in a more restricted way, and work towards elimination of ECT.
— Will Hall
How did pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Smith Kline create “depression” in Japan — and a billion dollar market for its anti-depressant drug Paxil? Why do people diagnosed with schizophrenia recover more in Tanzania than they do in the US? Can western-style psychotherapy help tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka?
Ethan Watters, author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, discusses how mental disorders are cultural products, defined in the US and then exported around the world.
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