@dickonb.bsky.social
Medical Director at Anna Freud, London and co lead for Mental Health, Cambridge Children's Hospital. Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Co-founder of AMBIT.
View from my kitchen tonight. Shard with an eyelash moon.
29.04.2025 22:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A thoughtful and balanced review of a thought-provoking study.
14.04.2025 09:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
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02.04.2025 21:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Job! Someone who could act as a Critical Friend for a major collaborative Alliance of organisations working across London with youth gangs, exploitation and violence, with AMBIT at its centre; help the alliance think about equity diversity & inclusion
saferlondon.org.uk/request-for-...
Just reading his new book. Highly recommended.
28.03.2025 08:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating thread. How JD Vance co-opts an ethno-cultural identity to suit his pitch, while simultaneously appearing to lie about it.
26.03.2025 07:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking for good teaching material: case study from a low or middle-income country of a healthcare innovation that was successfully adopted and transformed patient outcomes. Got some old examples, looking for a recent one. THANKS if you can suggest. #healthpolicy #digitalhealth
25.03.2025 17:04 — 👍 23 🔁 27 💬 9 📌 0Hi Trish
22.03.2025 21:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So this is what "free speech absolutism" looks like?
Fahrenheit 451... Book burnings ahead.
Looking for something fascinating to do in London next weekend (22-23 March 2025)?
I'm speaking at the UCL conference "Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade"
Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...
There's still space!
A bit about Epistemic Trust:
youtu.be/ZBeEOkwLToM?...
This, on Alexei Navalny, from my friend Elliot Jurist in America:
mindsitenews.org/2025/02/27/a...
A playground of my youth that I too miss, every time I see wonderful pictures like this. Twisting Gully and Broad Gully were love at first sight. And I remember a cold night in a snow hole in the late 1970s: joy with added icicles.
02.03.2025 19:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As Harry Caul in The Conversation... still one of my absolute to films ever. RIP
27.02.2025 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes yes yes! And hi here on bsky!
21.02.2025 13:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP) Closing Conference
National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP)
Closing Conference
19 February 2025, 1230-1535
#NATPmentalhealth
In 2022, Anna Freud and AT-Autism joined forces to develop and deliver a ground-breaking autism trainer programme, commissioned by NHS England.
Follow along to find out what we learned.
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Yay, I'm here! Wotcha right back @thementalelf.bsky.social !
15.02.2025 01:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
London's shard in black and white at night, people blurred on the tail platform below
London's shard, reflected upside down in a puddle
London's Shard, soaring yup from behind the tower of London, at night
London's Shard, glowing red at night with its head just in the clouds
I've become a little obsessed by Renzo Piano's Shard by London Bridge. Previously I reviled it as capitalist grandstanding, which of course it undoubtedly is. But now that I live under its shadow, now that it's my Shard, I'm afraid I've fallen for it...
08.02.2025 19:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello Bluesky friends & colleagues. I don’t normally post about my papers but thought it fitting that my first message draws attention to why I am here and not on X. A study we’ve just published on conspiracy thinking, fake news & epistemic trust: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
05.12.2024 10:09 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1We now have the complete programme for our forthcoming hybrid conference on Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy, 22nd-23rd March, run by the UCL Psychoanalysis Unit. Find out more and book here!
www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...)
www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...
Excited to be speaking at this conference in March that focuses on Epistemic Trust. With Liz Cracknell I'll be talking about Epistemic Mistrust - as not just another byproduct of injustice, but a trigger for further injustices by helping services.
Very well indeed thanks Becca! I'm two hours old on Bluesky... Great to reconnect!
01.02.2025 22:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I published this with the excellent Carla Sharp recently. It's published by Guilford.
01.02.2025 22:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That's great to hear, Becca. AMBIT is somewhat my fault but was really built on feedback from frontline workers doing extraordinarily difficult work with clients whose burdens are multiple and intersecting.
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