Janna Gottwald, PhD
@jannagottwald.bsky.social
Psychotherapist in training and developmental psychologist (PhD) • embodiment • early childhood development • complex trauma • ADHD and autism • relational and intersubjective psychoanalytic thinking
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I’m very allergic to the phrase “we know that” in science communication, especially when it extrapolates from limited evidence. Findings don’t equal facts.
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I’m very allergic to the phrase “we know that” in science communication, especially when it extrapolates from limited evidence. Findings don’t equal facts.
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"Burnout as experienced by autistic people is characterised by profound exhaustion, loss of functional abilities, and a chronic course marked by intermittent crises, with impacts on sensory, emotional, cognitive, and daily life functioning" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... systematic review
Burnout as experienced by autistic people: A systematic review
‘Autistic burnout’ is described as a debilitating state of exhaustion experienced by autistic people due to living in a world that often lacks accommo…
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November 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"Burnout as experienced by autistic people is characterised by profound exhaustion, loss of functional abilities, and a chronic course marked by intermittent crises, with impacts on sensory, emotional, cognitive, and daily life functioning" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... systematic review
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"The prevalence of autistic people in generic inpatient settings is much higher than estimates for autistic people in the general population. High levels of heterogeneity mean we cannot be exact, but we estimate the prevalence rate to be between 6 and 16%" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free
Prevalence of Autism in Psychiatric Inpatient Settings: a Meta-analysis - Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Autistic people experience high rates of mental health conditions and resultant inpatient psychiatric admissions. Best practice guidance suggests that generic inpatient units are poorly suited to many...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"The prevalence of autistic people in generic inpatient settings is much higher than estimates for autistic people in the general population. High levels of heterogeneity mean we cannot be exact, but we estimate the prevalence rate to be between 6 and 16%" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free
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Autistic adults talk about disclosure: "assumptions and lack of understanding about autism meant that not only did disclosure not lead to the desired effect of having their needs met, but they were also either dismissed or discriminated against" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free
‘Am I gonna regret this?’: The experiences of diagnostic disclosure in autistic adults - Sheena K Au-Yeung, Megan Freeth, Andrew R Thompson, 2025
An increasing number of people receive autism diagnoses in adulthood, and there are few studies investigating autistic adults’ experiences of disclosing their d...
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May 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Autistic adults talk about disclosure: "assumptions and lack of understanding about autism meant that not only did disclosure not lead to the desired effect of having their needs met, but they were also either dismissed or discriminated against" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free
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"Neurodivergent children cannot continue to be neglected by the systems meant to nurture them and provide a safe space to learn."
Autistic children are 46 times more likely to experience school distress than their neurotypical counterparts, researchers learned. They concluded that “the UK’s education system should shift practices to empower neurodivergent children to thrive.”
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Children at the frontline — neurodivergence and school distress
Cognitive neuroscientist Dr Sinéad Mullally and her team surveyed over 900 parents of children displaying school distress.
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July 23, 2024 at 5:40 PM
"Neurodivergent children cannot continue to be neglected by the systems meant to nurture them and provide a safe space to learn."
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Finding "no evidence that autistic children exhibited greater 'sticky attention'" ("contrary to our hypotheses") & autistics "nonsignificantly trended toward exhibiting reduced novelty preference"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... but autistics have "springy attention" which is bad? free
Hyper‐focus, sticky attention, and springy attention in young autistic children: Associations with sensory behaviors and cognitive ability
We tracked young autistic children's eye gaze in order to gain insights about how they attend to and experience things around them. Autistic children who were slower to “unstick” their attention from...
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June 6, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Finding "no evidence that autistic children exhibited greater 'sticky attention'" ("contrary to our hypotheses") & autistics "nonsignificantly trended toward exhibiting reduced novelty preference"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... but autistics have "springy attention" which is bad? free
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Autistics (age 18-65) "tend to place a slightly higher endorsement on Fairness, compared to typical people. Importantly, autistic people did not differ in Care scores compared to typical people" molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... study using the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, free
Moral foundations in autistic people and people with systemizing minds - Molecular Autism
Background Do autistic people share the same moral foundations as typical people? Here we built on two prominent theories in psychology, moral foundations theory and the empathizing–systemizing (E–S) ...
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May 15, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Autistics (age 18-65) "tend to place a slightly higher endorsement on Fairness, compared to typical people. Importantly, autistic people did not differ in Care scores compared to typical people" molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... study using the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, free
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Bei psychologischen Interventionen geht man immer davon aus, dass sie schon sicher sein werden, bis man vom Gegenteil überzeugt ist. Und bis man vom Gegenteil überzeugt ist, braucht es ganz schön laute Stimmen von Betroffenen, die Schaden genommen haben.
October 22, 2023 at 7:51 AM
Bei psychologischen Interventionen geht man immer davon aus, dass sie schon sicher sein werden, bis man vom Gegenteil überzeugt ist. Und bis man vom Gegenteil überzeugt ist, braucht es ganz schön laute Stimmen von Betroffenen, die Schaden genommen haben.
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Sehr große Stichprobe ubd interessante Ergebnisse: Einstellung gegenüber traumafokussierter PT ist besser bei Approbierten, vA mit Zusatz-Qualifikation und hohem case load, negativer bei Fachkunde AP/TP.
Große, deutschlandweite und fachkundenübergreifende Studie zur Einstellung von Psychotherapeut*innen gegenüber der Durchführung von Traumatherapie auf Basis von Behandlungsbereitschaft, Kompetenzerleben, Befürchtungen und Behandlungswahrscheinlichkeit👇🏻:
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October 21, 2023 at 7:09 AM
Sehr große Stichprobe ubd interessante Ergebnisse: Einstellung gegenüber traumafokussierter PT ist besser bei Approbierten, vA mit Zusatz-Qualifikation und hohem case load, negativer bei Fachkunde AP/TP.
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Junge Menschen unter Stress zu setzen, um sie zu trainieren, mit Stress besser umzugehen, ist eine populäre Idee und Praxis, bewirkt aber das Gegenteil. Wer möchte, dass junge Menschen unter Stress besser re/agieren können, stärkt sie als Personen, z.B. durch viele Erfahrungen der Selbstwirksamkeit.
October 18, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Junge Menschen unter Stress zu setzen, um sie zu trainieren, mit Stress besser umzugehen, ist eine populäre Idee und Praxis, bewirkt aber das Gegenteil. Wer möchte, dass junge Menschen unter Stress besser re/agieren können, stärkt sie als Personen, z.B. durch viele Erfahrungen der Selbstwirksamkeit.
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Guten Morgen.
Heute ist der Tag der seelischen Gesundheit.
Dass wir so einen Tag überhaupt brauchen liegt daran, dass psychische Erkrankungen weiterhin von vielen nicht ernst genommen und Betroffene stigmatisiert werden.
Der Zugang zu Behandlung wird künstlich verknappt.
Das muss sich ändern.
Heute ist der Tag der seelischen Gesundheit.
Dass wir so einen Tag überhaupt brauchen liegt daran, dass psychische Erkrankungen weiterhin von vielen nicht ernst genommen und Betroffene stigmatisiert werden.
Der Zugang zu Behandlung wird künstlich verknappt.
Das muss sich ändern.
October 10, 2023 at 5:02 AM
Guten Morgen.
Heute ist der Tag der seelischen Gesundheit.
Dass wir so einen Tag überhaupt brauchen liegt daran, dass psychische Erkrankungen weiterhin von vielen nicht ernst genommen und Betroffene stigmatisiert werden.
Der Zugang zu Behandlung wird künstlich verknappt.
Das muss sich ändern.
Heute ist der Tag der seelischen Gesundheit.
Dass wir so einen Tag überhaupt brauchen liegt daran, dass psychische Erkrankungen weiterhin von vielen nicht ernst genommen und Betroffene stigmatisiert werden.
Der Zugang zu Behandlung wird künstlich verknappt.
Das muss sich ändern.
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Hello! Assistant Prof @ Rutgers, clinical psychologist, trauma and substance use research, NIDA K23 award, very green to this blue app 😅 #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #WomeninSTEM
October 2, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Hello! Assistant Prof @ Rutgers, clinical psychologist, trauma and substance use research, NIDA K23 award, very green to this blue app 😅 #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #WomeninSTEM
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One of the big take aways from the Twitter exodus to eg Mastodon 🙋last year after the Musk 🐦 takeover was that it is not enough to set up camp / create an account somewhere else.
We need posts, interactions, engagement.
Curious to see what the 🔵☁️ community will be…
Polisky commsky academicsky
We need posts, interactions, engagement.
Curious to see what the 🔵☁️ community will be…
Polisky commsky academicsky
September 29, 2023 at 6:28 AM
One of the big take aways from the Twitter exodus to eg Mastodon 🙋last year after the Musk 🐦 takeover was that it is not enough to set up camp / create an account somewhere else.
We need posts, interactions, engagement.
Curious to see what the 🔵☁️ community will be…
Polisky commsky academicsky
We need posts, interactions, engagement.
Curious to see what the 🔵☁️ community will be…
Polisky commsky academicsky
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Hello Blue Skies! My first Official Post. I am an associate prof in #ClinPsych & Experimental Psychopathology, Groningen, NL. Hugely interested in memory & emotion/trauma. Also: #MetaSci, reproducibility, Open Science - Looking for a community to learn more about doing reponsible #Sci :)
September 27, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Hello Blue Skies! My first Official Post. I am an associate prof in #ClinPsych & Experimental Psychopathology, Groningen, NL. Hugely interested in memory & emotion/trauma. Also: #MetaSci, reproducibility, Open Science - Looking for a community to learn more about doing reponsible #Sci :)
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Hi Bluesky! 👋 I'm an assistant professor at the University of Toledo. I study how to make effective psychological treatments accessible and relevant to the individual in context, using digital interventions and idiographic methods. I nerd out on processes of change. #PsychSciSky #ClinPsych
September 28, 2023 at 2:56 PM
Hi Bluesky! 👋 I'm an assistant professor at the University of Toledo. I study how to make effective psychological treatments accessible and relevant to the individual in context, using digital interventions and idiographic methods. I nerd out on processes of change. #PsychSciSky #ClinPsych
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One of the biggest changes I have noticed since leaving academia is believing that my time and ideas are valuable and that I deserve to be paid for them. This is obvious, but after years of being paid pennies, while working nights and weekends to use the skills I learned in my PhD, it feels radical.
September 28, 2023 at 4:42 PM
One of the biggest changes I have noticed since leaving academia is believing that my time and ideas are valuable and that I deserve to be paid for them. This is obvious, but after years of being paid pennies, while working nights and weekends to use the skills I learned in my PhD, it feels radical.
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We will need a critical mass of academics here for this website to be a viable academic Twitter alternative. That will only happen if people with big accounts come over, commit to being here, bring their followers, and we keep distributing codes. If Twitter is a viable alternative, people will stay.
September 26, 2023 at 1:51 PM
We will need a critical mass of academics here for this website to be a viable academic Twitter alternative. That will only happen if people with big accounts come over, commit to being here, bring their followers, and we keep distributing codes. If Twitter is a viable alternative, people will stay.
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Does anyone know studies that compare rates of change in CBT vs. PDT, ie investigate whether symptoms change faster in one compared to the other (ok, let's be honest: decline faster in CBT than PDT)? @tkaiser.bsky.social @nilsftoepfer.bsky.social @ehrenthal-lab.bsky.social #psychscisky
September 24, 2023 at 4:18 PM
Does anyone know studies that compare rates of change in CBT vs. PDT, ie investigate whether symptoms change faster in one compared to the other (ok, let's be honest: decline faster in CBT than PDT)? @tkaiser.bsky.social @nilsftoepfer.bsky.social @ehrenthal-lab.bsky.social #psychscisky
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Hi bluesky! I’m a Cognitive Neuroscience PhD student at the University of Hong Kong. Broadly interested in psychiatric nosology, digital phenotyping, and fear-related decision making. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
Thank you also to @mgallen.bsky.social and @pkpd-babe.bsky.social for getting me here :)
Thank you also to @mgallen.bsky.social and @pkpd-babe.bsky.social for getting me here :)
September 28, 2023 at 3:18 PM
Hi bluesky! I’m a Cognitive Neuroscience PhD student at the University of Hong Kong. Broadly interested in psychiatric nosology, digital phenotyping, and fear-related decision making. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
Thank you also to @mgallen.bsky.social and @pkpd-babe.bsky.social for getting me here :)
Thank you also to @mgallen.bsky.social and @pkpd-babe.bsky.social for getting me here :)
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Sadly yes. It's the same problem we see with replication markets and other similar initiatives. Starting out with a motto of "we need more replications" rather than "we need better science" tends to have such consequences. Proceduralization itself is turning into a massive & hard problem to tackle.
September 27, 2023 at 6:43 PM
Sadly yes. It's the same problem we see with replication markets and other similar initiatives. Starting out with a motto of "we need more replications" rather than "we need better science" tends to have such consequences. Proceduralization itself is turning into a massive & hard problem to tackle.
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Hello world! I've finally broken down and decided to make an account here in addition to my Twitter! A quick introduction:
I'm Zack Williams, an autistic autism researcher and self-advocate currently pursuing my MD/PhD (Psychiatry + Neuroscience/Hearing&Speech) at Vanderbilt.
I'm Zack Williams, an autistic autism researcher and self-advocate currently pursuing my MD/PhD (Psychiatry + Neuroscience/Hearing&Speech) at Vanderbilt.
September 26, 2023 at 12:38 AM
Hello world! I've finally broken down and decided to make an account here in addition to my Twitter! A quick introduction:
I'm Zack Williams, an autistic autism researcher and self-advocate currently pursuing my MD/PhD (Psychiatry + Neuroscience/Hearing&Speech) at Vanderbilt.
I'm Zack Williams, an autistic autism researcher and self-advocate currently pursuing my MD/PhD (Psychiatry + Neuroscience/Hearing&Speech) at Vanderbilt.
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My new @sciam.bsky.social column on the most persistent myth in autism research, and how autistic researchers and allies are pushing back. www.scientificamerican.com/article/auti...
Autism, Human Connection and the ‘Double Empathy’ Problem
Despite stereotypes, many autistic people yearn for meaningful relationships, but they are daunted by neurotypicals’ assumptions about them
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September 25, 2023 at 6:18 PM
My new @sciam.bsky.social column on the most persistent myth in autism research, and how autistic researchers and allies are pushing back. www.scientificamerican.com/article/auti...
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Leseempfehlung: "Mein größtes Rätsel bin ich selbst" vom @podcastubw.bsky.social. Vier bewegende Fallbeispiele aus der #Psychoanalyse. Gibt sehr sensibel Einblick in die Arbeit und in die Leben der Patient:innen. Hat mich be- und gerührt. #traumafolgestörungen #notjustsad
Mein größtes Rätsel bin ich selbst - Bücher - Hanser Literaturverlagepinterest
Bekannt vom erfolgreichen Podcast „Rätsel des Unbewussten“ – entlang lebensnaher Geschichten erklären die Autor:innen den Prozess der ...
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September 27, 2023 at 7:16 AM
Leseempfehlung: "Mein größtes Rätsel bin ich selbst" vom @podcastubw.bsky.social. Vier bewegende Fallbeispiele aus der #Psychoanalyse. Gibt sehr sensibel Einblick in die Arbeit und in die Leben der Patient:innen. Hat mich be- und gerührt. #traumafolgestörungen #notjustsad