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Dr David Webb PhD

Lived Experience, VIC
Panellists have generously contributed to our CPD webinars. Please note that they are not employed by MHPN, and we are unable to contact them or provide referrals on your behalf. Please do not send us patient details.

After surviving “four years of madness”, David Webb looked into the formal study of suicide (Suicidology) and was taken aback to find the first-person voice of survivors virtually absent. Perhaps less surprising was the absence of spirituality, the key to David’s survival. So in 2006 he completed what is thought to be the world’s first PhD on suicide by a survivor, followed in 2010 by his book “Thinking About Suicide” (and its companion website thinkingaboutsuicide.org).

David has been a board member of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) and worked for the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO). He now lives quietly in Castlemaine, an old gold-rush town near Melbourne.

Dr David Webb PhD has presented on the following MHPN activities:

A collaborative approach to supporting people at risk of suicide, 13 May 2013

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