World Hearing Voices Congress in Holland (with audio incl. Coming Off Meds talk)

Hi everyone, happy World Hearing Voices Day. I’m terribly jet lagged but just arrived in Valkenburg Holland for the World Hearing Voices Congress. (also check out the audio)

Staying in a bungalow with Rufus May and some other great UK dissident mental health professionals, long conversations over forced treatment, suicide, addiction, shamanism, Voice Dialog, Theater of the Oppressed… I’m giving a workshop on coming off medications this thursday.

A great honor to be invited, and a wonderful chance to meet others and allies in the mad movement — and learn more. You can follow things at my Portland Hearing Voices twitter feed here: http://twitter.com/pdxvoices and the tag #hearingvoices.

Congress photos on my flickr feed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/willflickr/sets/72157622396976958/show/

Audio clips – unedited and variable quality.

Listen to the talk on Psychiatry at War With Itself – including replacing ‘schizophrenia’ with a new diagnosis – by J Van Os of the Netherlands — the talk is highly recommended: 09HearingVoicesCongress-JVanOsPsychiatryAtWarWithItself.mp3

Leading UK advocate Ron Coleman’s talk: 09HearingVoicesCongress-RonColeman.mp3

Excerpt of UK Hearing Voices Network Director Jacqui Dillon’s talk 09HearingVoicesCongress-JacquiDillon(excerpt).mp3

Brendan George on working with dual diagnosis: BrendanGeorgesonDualDiagnosis.mp3

Voice Hearer Eleanor Longden: 09HearingVoicesCongress-EleanorLongden.mp3

Voice Hearer Peter Bullimore on voices and trauma 09HearingVoicesCongress-PeterBullimore.mp3

Will Hall workshop on Coming Off Medications 09HearingVoicesCongress-WillHallComingOffMedications.mp3

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