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

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...

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

Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met. By Kelly McFadden www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/psyc...

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...

We are witnessing a roll-back in mental health care towards a post-liberal psychiatry. See my new post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/dirkrich... #psychiatry #coercion #mentalhealth

I have just launched 'PsychoSociety', a Substack covering anything related to the human psyche and modern society. Please subscribe to this free newsletter to keep updated. dirkrichter.substack.com

An ode to Europe: our continent (including the UK of course) is a haven of political stability and liberalism (with certain exceptions) compared to other regions in the northern hemisphere: The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Academics - where are academic jobs posted for non-UK non-North American countries? If you were looking for jobs in, say, the Nordic countries, or Australia, where do you look? Asking for all the PhDs who are on the market this year. (Pls no April fools jokes, their nerves are frayed as it is)

🚨 ++ Offener Brief an Friedrich Merz und Lars Klingbeil ++ KEINE INBETRIEBNAHME VON NORDSTREAM, KEINE RÜCKKEHR ZUR ENERGIEPARTNERSCHAFT MIT PUTIN-RUSSLAND Zum Aufruf: libmod.de/offener-brie... 1/3

A crucial moment in global democratic backsliding www.ft.com/content/c1a2...

You can access the full set of interviews -- **FREE until April 12** -- here: www.nature.com/collections/...

Sunk in shame for this un-American administration and its cowardly enablers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Es möge sich keine AFD-Wählenden beschweren, wenn im Alter niemand da ist, den Hintern abzuwischen. www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pr... #migration #afd

A not so good morning from Kyiv - with ballistics and drones in the air above. This is the reality of Ukrainians since more than three years! It cannot be said or written enough. More than three years! Look at the map. Understand it. Feel it.

"These universities have the most retracted scientific articles." from @richvn.bsky.social at @nature.com “It’s tempting to think about whether differences are related to varying incentives for researchers in different institutions,” says Ivan Oransky.

The Air Alert map of warnings of Russian air attacks on Ukraine just now, as #Putin is supposedly talking peace with #Trump

The moment that we operationalise "ratio of retracted papers" into a metric of suspicion - even if only informally, we put Goodhart's Law in reverse: We'd be disincentivising institutions to cast a serious gaze inward and we'd be casting entire nations and their scientists into risk categories

If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

„Wir haben uns einfach auf dem Sicherheitsversprechen der USA ausgeruht und glauben, das gilt für die Ewigkeit. Das ist grob fahrlässig.“ www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Federal grants mess in the US, large scale job cuts at UK unis, even in Switzerland things have got tougher in recent years. Would you start an academic career once again? #science #academicsky #research

An unpleasant word - "war". How #Western #scientific community is quietly taking Russia's side. Read more about how even science can become a #propaganda tool in the hands of an aggressor in the thread. ⬇️ #academicsky #Phd

Wie ist der Stand der Menschenrechte in der Psychiatrie der Schweiz? Ein neues Arbeitspapier der @bfh-ch.bsky.social gibt einen umfassenden Überblick osf.io/preprints/os... #psychscisky #psychiatry #nursing

📢 New Open-Access Book! Coercion & Violence in Mental Health Settings explores international perspectives on coercion & rights-based care, centring lived experience. 📖 Read my article: lnkd.in/evJpah3k 📚 Free book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... How do we centre lived experience in reform?

Migration, Internierung und psychische Probleme: Eine neue US-Studie zeigt einen klaren Zusammenhang zwischen der Dauer der Internierung in Asylzentren und den psychischen Problemen der Internierten. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #migration #psychiatrie #aschaffenburg #psychscisky

Jetzt gerät Frau Dr. Bohne ins Visier de Kreml, und ich erfahre es aus der Zeitung! Irre!

If you’re curious about the harm that can happen in mental healthcare but prefer a blog over an academic article (even an open access one), check out this excellent summary from the Mental Elf. It covers the key findings of our review in a clear and accessible way.

To all mental health nurses, service users and all professionals who collaborate with mental health nurses. What reforms and new impulses does mental health nursing need? What do you value about the profession, but what should definitely change? #psychscisky #nursing #psychiatry #mentalhealth

Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

😱 The largest and most up-to-date list of #Predatory journals and publishers. #2025 😉 predatoryjournals.org/news/f/preda...

"The party's leader has a same sex partner from Sri Lanka. Does that sound like Hitler to you?" How about: "The Party's leader is an artist and dog-loving vegetarian. Does that sound like Hitler to you?"

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Sharing our review that suggests traumatic experiences in mental health inpatient settings - and far more insidious than just restrictive interventions - can worsen outcomes. We urge redesign of environment, processes and autonomy to improve care. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks to @ymaker.bsky.social for the initial concept and for co-authoring this open access article on #HumanRights and the #SocialDeterminants of #MentalHealth with me. #Psychscisky #Psychiatry #Psychology #Law www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

I am being interviewed today on the website of my university on the issue of abolishing coercion in psychiatry (unfortunately only in German).

It's that time of year again. The extended anticipation of knowing exactly what you want but wondering if you'll get it. 🎁 #AcademicSky #postdoc #PhDsky [Comic by The Upturned Microscope]

What exactly is informal coercion in psychiatry? A new target article in the Am J Bioethics has advanced the discussion. I have analysed it and identified further problem areas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #mentalhealth #coercion #PsychSciSky

Loving this new paper on complexity in medicine, using pediatrics as the worked example. Too many medical authors (and the MRC) run fast and loose with the terms 'complexity' and 'complex interventions'. They should read this paper. #medsky #academicsky #philsci 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

Wie können demokratische Parteien mit Populismus und illiberalen Strömungen umgehen? Eine Einschätzung von @monarichter.bsky.social und mir. Danke @libmod.bsky.social für die Publikation und @fuecks.bsky.social für die Unterstützung. libmod.de/wider-den-po...

I will not hide my inner convictions anymore. Be the change you want to see in the world ! #AcademicSky 🧪

To all my new followers, I've set up a reducing coercion and restrictive practices starter pack. Really hoping to build a vibrant community for sharing ideas. If you want to be added or know anyone who should be please let me know go.bsky.app/KB1ic8c

Looking for staff working in inpatient settings to take part in an interview, would be nice to have a Clinical Psychologist or Psychiatry to take part...

Find a friend to talk science with. Or assemble a peer group. Exchange ideas and critiques. I’ve always believed this is critical to doing good science.