Dirk Richter
@dirkrichter4.bsky.social
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/
Substack: https://dirkrichter.substack.com/
Professsor at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland
Personal website: https://en.dirkrichter.net/
Substack: https://dirkrichter.substack.com/
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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
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...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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
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...
dirkrichter.substack.com/p/ontologica...
Ontological Insecurity
The societal link between mental health problems and right-wing populism
dirkrichter.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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...
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
New open access paper on the state and the future of social psychiatry by a group of Swiss researchers
journals.lww.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
journals.lww.com/wpsy/fulltex...
New open access paper on the state and the future of social psychiatry by a group of Swiss researchers
New open access paper on the state and the future of social psychiatry by a group of Swiss researchers
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Reposted by Dirk Richter
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...
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...
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.
www.madinamerica.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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...
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...
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
August 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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...
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
open.substack.com/pub/dirkrich...
#psychiatry #coercion #mentalhealth
The prospect of a post-liberal psychiatry
Surveillance and long-term detention for people with mental health problems are re-instated even in liberal democracies
open.substack.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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
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.
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PsychoSociety | Dirk Richter | Substack
Anything related to the human psyche and modern society and in between. Click to read PsychoSociety, by Dirk Richter, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
Please subscribe to this free newsletter to keep updated.
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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/...
The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now
Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison
www.economist.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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/...
The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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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.
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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.
Reposted by Dirk Richter
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)
April 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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)
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🚨 ++ 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...
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Zum Aufruf:
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March 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🚨 ++ 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
Zum Aufruf:
libmod.de/offener-brie...
1/3
Reposted by Dirk Richter
Reposted by Dirk Richter
You can access the full set of interviews -- **FREE until April 12** -- here: www.nature.com/collections/...
March 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
You can access the full set of interviews -- **FREE until April 12** -- here: www.nature.com/collections/...
Reposted by Dirk Richter
Sunk in shame for this un-American administration and its cowardly enablers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
At Least Now We Know the Truth
The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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
www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pr...
#migration #afd
Beschäftigte mit Einwanderungsgeschichte in vielen Mangelberufen überdurchschnittlich stark vertreten
Ob im Bau, in der Lebensmittelindustrie, der Gastronomie, der Pflege oder im Personen- und Güterverkehr: In vielen Engpassberufen sind Beschäftigte mit Einwanderungsgeschichte überdurchschnittlich sta...
www.destatis.de
February 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Es möge sich keine AFD-Wählenden beschweren, wenn im Alter niemand da ist, den Hintern abzuwischen.
www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pr...
#migration #afd
www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pr...
#migration #afd
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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.
Look at the map. Understand it. Feel it.
February 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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.
Look at the map. Understand it. Feel it.
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"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.
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.
Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles
A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"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.
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.
Reposted by Dirk Richter
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
Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles
A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
Reposted by Dirk Richter
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.
February 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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.
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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.
February 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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.
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„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...
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Carlo Masala: "Wir stünden einem neoimperialen Russland quasi blanko gegenüber"
Trump fordert Radikales – dahinter stecken meist ganz andere Ziele, sagt der Politologe Carlo Masala. Die Deutschen hält er für gefährlich naiv. Frieden mit Putin auch.
www.zeit.de
February 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
„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...
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
#science #academicsky #research
February 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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
#science #academicsky #research
Reposted by Dirk Richter
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
Read more about how even science can become a #propaganda tool in the hands of an aggressor in the thread. ⬇️
#academicsky #Phd
How global scientists "neutrally" aid Russia’s agenda
Even botany can become a propaganda tool in the hands of the aggressor. According to Ukrainian scientists, their Western colleagues …
texty.org.ua
February 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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
Read more about how even science can become a #propaganda tool in the hands of an aggressor in the thread. ⬇️
#academicsky #Phd