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Ronan Zimmermann, Dr. phil.




Ronan Zimmermann is a senior researcher and project manager in our research team. Ronan focuses on psychotherapy process research and on international psychiatric documentation systems, with a specific focus on low- and middle-income countries.

Profile
Psychologist, Lecturer University of Basel, psychotherapy research, international psychiatric documentation

Further links
 MHIRA

 
Recent publications

 
A swarm intelligence machine learning algorithm for test development Silence in Psychotherapy Supervised speaker diarization using Random Forests
In this study we used the "intelligence" of a swarm of ants to develop a short questionnaire to detect personality disorders in adolescence. Check out our study on Plos One.
Usually, silence is an important thing in psychotherapy. However, in this study we studied the association of silence in psychotherapies of adolescent patients. Find out more about this study below. Who speaks when? This information is key, when you want to find out about the flow of a conversation, also in psychotherapy. This study by Fürer et al. introduces a methodology to diarize the audio signal for two different speakers.
Steppan / Zimmerann, et al. Zimmermann, et al. Fürer, et al.
Plos One Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment Frontiers in Psychology