Dirk Richter

@dirkrichter4.bsky.social

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Social scientist, mental health nurse, research nerd, book lover, gravel biker
Professsor at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland
Personal website: https://en.dirkrichter.net/
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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Aug 7

My new book on human rights in psychiatry is now available as E-book at Springer Link. In the book I discuss the necessity of abolishing coercion in psychiatry and the dilemmas that are associated with it.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Human Rights in Psychiatry

The book describes describes the lines of conflict in the context of coercion in psychiatric nursing and care.

link.springer.com

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 6d

Guilty as charged... It is both backlash and political project. What progressives don't get is the fundamental social insecurity behind the backlash open.substack.com/pub/dirkrich...

Ontological Insecurity

The societal link between mental health problems and right-wing populism

open.substack.com

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 6d

Racism plus confirmation bias

Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Mark Rubin, Dirk Richter

Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 11d

Editorial by @astridchevance.bsky.social on censorship in academia.

Worth your time.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪

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Contemporary censors at work: targeting medical science to shape social reality | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Contemporary censors at work: targeting medical science to shape social reality - Volume 228 Issue 1

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 13d

We've got a new preprint out on Psyarxiv which explores the causes of the increasing rates of people in mental health treatment. We propose that the underlying epidemiology is of lesser importance here compared to sociocultural issues.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#psychscisky #psychiatry #psyarxiv

OSF

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 14d

Leftwing infighting - that's the recurring history of the left since the early 20th century. In Spain this has helped the rise of fascism. It may happen again...

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 17d

We were able to show that CMHN significantly reduces the risk of hospitalization in Switzerland. However, we could not rule out that this is partly due to a regression to the mean effect. See the paper in the link
smw.ch/index.php/sm...

Effectiveness of community mental health nursing on psychiatric hospitalisations in Switzerland: a mirror-image analysis | Swiss Medical Weekly

smw.ch

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 17d

How effective is community mental health nursing? Together with my colleague Anna Hegedüs, I have published one of the largest studies in this field. Based on routine data, we utilized a relatively unknown epidemiological methodology: the mirror image design. #nursing #psychscisky

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 17d

Auch auf die Gefahr hin, dass ich mich noch unbeliebter mache: so treiben wir die Konservativen in die Arme der Rechten. Eine liberale Demokratie kann auf Konservative nicht verzichten, auch wenn ich für die Positionen keine Sympathie habe.

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 17d

Rejecting the null hypothesis

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 17d

In Switzerland we've a similar situation with Springer and Sage. Currently, we cannot access Sage journals. It is imperative to set up diamond access journals which are presumably cheaper to run than paying the hedge fonds driven publishers.

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 18d

Wenn aber Respekt der Anfang von allem ist, wie Sie völlig zurecht in Ihrem Account schreiben, verbieten sich solche unflätigen Beschimpfungen wie in diesem Post, meine ich (ebenfalls links und Grün Sympathisant)

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 28d

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Dec 11

Die moralische Empörung ist sicher angemessen, aber die Aussage würde mehr Heimaufenthalte zur Folge haben, und dies wäre noch deutlich teurer, siehe unsere Studie aus der psychiatrischen Versorgung
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Independent Supported Housing vs institutional housing rehabilitation settings for non-homeless individuals with severe mental illness – longitudinal results from an observational study - BMC Psychiat...

Background Most individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) strongly prefer independent living over living in an institution. Independent Supported Housing (ISH) provides housing rehabilitation for p...

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Dec 9

Use of titles is still very common in Austria. It doesn't imply distance, it's just the usual approach

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Dec 9

And it has thousands of elderly German bus tourists on walkers...

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Dec 9

Das kommt davon, wenn man nicht über den Tellerrand schauen kann. Es ist kein Phänomen des Westens
www.bbc.com/articles/c4n...

The Chinese women turning to ChatGPT for AI boyfriends

A jailbreak version of ChatGPT is becoming popular with women who prefer it to real world dating.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Dec 9

Gerne

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Dec 9

Da wäre ich auch gerne dabei, obwohl halb CH ....

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Nov 28

We have predicted that already back in 2021. COVID wasn't the first time.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Epidemic Failure Cycle hypothesis: Towards understanding the global community’s recent failures in responding to an epidemic

Within a few years, the global community has failed twice in responding to large viral infection outbreaks: the Ebola epidemic in 2014 and the SARS-Co…

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Nov 26

Can coercion in mental health care be justified? See our new OA-paper that is based on an adversarial collaboration approach. Two authors collaborate from completely antagonistic standpoints and come to some surprising results.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PsychsciSky #AcademicSky #philsci

Can coercion in psychiatry be justified? A theoretical adversarial collaboration approach

The use of coercion in psychiatry is one of the most controversial issues in modern healthcare. There are clinical, legal and ethical arguments in fav…

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Nov 22

Already back in 2021 we have analysed this as the epidemic failure cycle. It has happened many times and will definitely do so in the future
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Epidemic Failure Cycle hypothesis: Towards understanding the global community’s recent failures in responding to an epidemic

Within a few years, the global community has failed twice in responding to large viral infection outbreaks: the Ebola epidemic in 2014 and the SARS-Co…

www.sciencedirect.com

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Nov 19

Ontological Insecurity - A new post on my 'PsychoSociety' Substack. These insecurity issues can trigger different outcomes, from psychological distress to anti‑liberal political behavior. This topic is one of the most important issues in current societies.
dirkrichter.substack.com/p/ontologica...

Ontological Insecurity

The societal link between mental health problems and right-wing populism

dirkrichter.substack.com

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Nov 7

Although I'm not a fan of big tech companies, I totally agree. Google sites is very easy to use and to administer. No programming, but some (basic) templates. en.dirkrichter.net

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Nov 6

journals.lww.com/wpsy/fulltex...
New open access paper on the state and the future of social psychiatry by a group of Swiss researchers

journals.lww.com

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Nov 4

Many thanks for the paper, much appreciated

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Nov 3

Hi, any chance to have the paper sent by email? Thanks in advance

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Oct 27

Interesting. Is there any convincing evidence that it works, e.g. against isolation or loneliness?

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Oct 13

Besides the conflict of interest, most service users prefer working in the general labour market. I don't see the point.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Client Challenge

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Sep 28

Sounds familiar....

Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · Sep 16

Thanks for covering, much appreciated

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