Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.

Hello, my name is James, and welcome to the Madden America podcast. And today we are sharing

a special interview that's being done as part of World Tapering Day. So World Tapering Day is being held on the 4th, 5th and 6th of November 2022. And it aims to raise global awareness of the need to safely taper psychotropic drugs. And it's been organized by people with personal experience of

the severe difficulties that can arise when stopping antidepressants, antipsychotics or benzodiazepines.

So if you are listening to this as the podcast and you'd like to find out more or to participate,

you can visit the website, world taperingday.org.

That's world taperingday.org. And so on to our guest for today. And I'm really, really delighted

to be joined by Anders Sorensen. Anders is a Danish clinical psychologist with a special

interest in psychiatric drug withdrawal.

And he's undertaken research which assess the state of guidance on psychiatric drug withdrawal.

And he's also paid close attention to tapering methods with the aim of identifying approaches which might make withdrawal more tolerable for people.

So in addition to his research work Anders utilizes psychotherapy in his private practice when

helping people to come off the drugs and we'll get to talk about some of that in this interview.

So Anders, welcome.

I'm so pleased that you can join me today. Thank you. Thank you. Me too. Thanks for

having me. So firstly, to kind of get us underway, could you tell us a little bit about you? And in

particular, kind of how it was you came to be interested in issues around withdrawal from

psychiatric drugs. Yeah, of course.

So an interesting question, actually, that I get asked a lot.

Long story short, I like good science.

And I like studying what good science is, which is a research field in its own right,

research methodology.

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