Law and Mental Health Conference 2024

“Psychosis and Disability Justice: Why We Need To Abolish Forced Psychiatry”
Will Hall, MA, DiplPW, PhD Candidate, Maastricht University

Evaluation Form for Workshop
https://willhall.net/evaluation

RESOURCES

Will Hall website
www.willhall.net

NARPA – National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
https://www.narpa.org/

Your Consent is Not Required -The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships – Rob Wipond
https://robwipond.com/your-consent-is-not-required

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Article 14
https://bit.ly/4dPr1QS

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – UN Committee Comment on Article 12 https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g14/031/20/pdf/g1403120.pdf?token=mdRkEKOivYfyy6oZYX&fe=true

World Health Organization: “Ending coercive practices in mental health – such as involuntary detention, forced treatment, seclusion and restraints – is essential in order to respect the right to make decisions about one’s own health care and treatment choices.”
https://bit.ly/4bRZzzZ

Forced Treatment is Torture: Interim Report from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture
https://www.narpa.org/reference/un-forced-psychiatric-treatment-is-torture

Why Forced Psychiatric Treatment Should Be Banned: Even the Science Says Its Wrong – Robert Whitaker
https://medium.com/mad-in-america/why-forced-psychiatric-treatment-should-be-banned-even-the-science-says-its-wrong-d44022d81a13

Abolishing Forced Treatment in Psychiatry Is An Ethical Imperative – Peter Goetzsche
www.madinamerica.com/2016/06/abolishing-forced-treatment-in-psychiatry-is-an-ethical-imperative/

Time for a New Understanding of Suicidal Feelings – Will Hall www.madinamerica.com/2013/04/time-for-a-new-understanding-of-suicidal-feelings/

Suicidal Feelings and Social Justice – Will Hall – World Hearing Voices Congress
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjhuu7mDtwo

Can we predict suicide? US Army reviews the research literature and concludes, No, we can’t. Not with “risk factors,” not with “assessments,” not with clinical profiling. We cannot predict suicide.
https://bit.ly/3b23RpF

Antidepressants and Suicide: 7,829 Inquests
https://bit.ly/3TXTXNq

Suicidality and Aggression During Antidepressant Treatment: Systematic Review and Meta-analyse
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4729837/

Samaritans – confidential crisis support
https://www.samaritans.org/

Madness Radio – hosted by Will Hall
www.madnessradio.net

Mad In America
www.madinamerica.com

Open Dialogue resources on Will Hall’s site
https://willhall.net/opendialogue/

Hearing Voices Network
http://www.hearingvoicesusa.org

International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis
https://isps-us.org/

CrazyWise Film
https://crazywisefilm.com

Healing Voices Film
https://vimeo.com/306006944

Harm Reduction Guide To Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs – Will Hall
www.willhall.net/comingoffmeds

Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness – Will Hall (free download)
www.outsidementalhealth.com

 

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