Simon Dinse
@smdin.bsky.social
Research Assistant | Dept Population-Based Medicine @ UniTübingen | Psychologist | Psychotherapist (CBT) | Interested in: mental health, complex systems science, existential therapy, philosophy of science, metascience
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Making links between our political economy, world affairs, environmental harms and human distress? Here are some sources of understanding, including David Smail who was hugely influential in the field of community psychology.
Back in 1989, the late David Smail, UK clinical psychologist, on depression (on our watch page):
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Below are some videos explaining ideas which chime with our thinking around social materialist psychology David Smail on depression, 1989 Paul Moloney on the therapy industry, 2013 Noam Chomsky on …
midpsy.uk
August 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Making links between our political economy, world affairs, environmental harms and human distress? Here are some sources of understanding, including David Smail who was hugely influential in the field of community psychology.
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Sometimes I feel that academia is so infected by the current publishing system that we can only express its problems and solutions in ways which do not really challenge the current publishing system.
There are many issues with preprints, but one of the biggest is when they are seen as credible before being peer-reviewed.
This is potentially very dangerous. A 🧵
🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky
This is potentially very dangerous. A 🧵
🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky
Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are
The public needs context about unreviewed manuscripts, survey suggests
www.science.org
January 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Sometimes I feel that academia is so infected by the current publishing system that we can only express its problems and solutions in ways which do not really challenge the current publishing system.
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Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person.
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
Are causes of mental disorders in the person or in the environment? » Eiko Fried
Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
eiko-fried.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person.
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...