Bridging to Recovery When Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs,
with Anders Sørensen, PhD
Friday, June 27, 2025
10-11 a.m PST | 1-2 p.m. EST | 5-6 p.m. GMT
Register today! Registration closes noon PST June 26, 2025
When psychiatric drug treatment comes to an end, how may a clinician minimize the risk of withdrawal or relapse while deprescribing? In this webinar presented by the Psychotropic Deprescribing Council, Danish psychologist and researcher Anders Sørensen, PhD offers his views on this important clinical skill, discussing his work in helping patients find their ways through tapering off antidepressants and psychiatric drugs to a new life supported by psychotherapy.
A short question and answer period will follow Anders’s presentation. A video of the webinar will be available for those who register but find they cannot attend. Please register for this webinar today.
Early in his training, Anders observed that the masking effects of psychiatric drugs often interfered with his clients’ abilities to address the root causes of their emotional distress and that these drugs could be very difficult to stop. He then obtained his PhD in psychiatric drug tapering and now specializes in advising people how to come off psychiatric drugs through gradual, hyperbolic tapering while providing psychotherapy to enable them to stay off.
Anders’s most recent work is a book, Crossing Zero – The Art and Science of Coming and Staying Off Psychiatric Drugs, to be published this summer, which incorporates the concept of recovery into psychiatric drug treatment. The first part of the book provides a clear, thoughtful interpretation of how psychiatric drugs do and do not work. In the second part, Anders explains the science of hyperbolic tapering and step-by-step methods to minimize the risk of withdrawal symptoms. In the last part, Life beyond Medication, Anders explores psychotherapeutic approaches to overcoming the difficult thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that underlie our various mental health diagnostic labels.
Anders’s scientific research includes systematic reviews such as Sørensen, et al. (2022). Description of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms in clinical practice guidelines on depression: A systematic review and Sørensen, et al. (2021). The relationship between dose and serotonin transporter occupancy of antidepressants—A systematic review. In addition to his writing, research, and clinical practice, Anders shares information about psychiatric drug tapering with the general public through social media, interviews, articles, and his popular YouTube channel, @AndersSorensen.
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