About me
Adan C. Richards spent several years as a peer worker and support worker across NGO mental health settings in South Australia, working alongside people subject to coercive and compulsory treatment. That work positioned him as a monitor on behalf of systems where clients could not speak openly about their lives, what they were experiencing, or what might actually help them. What he witnessed was sustained, structural suppression. Those observations became a PhD. Richards is now a candidate in Psychology at Adelaide University, conducting research into the social contexts shaping the behaviours labelled psychosis, using Social Contextual Analysis and 70 hours of extended observational interviewing at the Humane Clinic in South Australia, where he also holds a shift lead position with the Just Listening Community. He teaches at Adelaide University and is a co-author of two books.
