About Dr Anders Sørensen
I’m Anders Sørensen, a Danish clinical psychologist, researcher, and author of Crossing Zero.
I hold a PhD in psychiatry, specializing in psychiatric drug withdrawal and tapering.
Since 2015, I’ve run a dedicated tapering and psychotherapy clinic in Copenhagen, helping people safely come off antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, benzodiazepines, and stimulants — and manage their lives without medications.
This newsletter distills what I’ve learned from a decade of clinical work, research, and thousands of conversations with people navigating withdrawal, rediscovering their emotional landscape, and making sense of their inner world — including honest answers to the question: ‘If not medication, then what? ’”
Crossing Zero: The Three Pillars
Crossing Zero has three pillars:
The Taper Itself The science and practice of coming off psychiatric drugs safely — hyperbolic tapering, dose reductions, receptor occupancy, success stories, what happens in the brain, withdrawal symptoms, management strategies, and how to distinguish withdrawal from relapse.
Life Beyond Medication How to navigate your emotional landscape and triggers without pharmaceutical numbing or alteration — emotion regulation, trauma, intrusive thoughts, rumination, worry, identity, spirituality, diet, listening to your body, and the return of emotions that medications once kept muted.