PHENOLAB – A Theoretical Laboratory in Phenomenology and Mental Health

PHENOLAB – FULL PROGRAM – A. Y. 2022-2023https://phenolab.blogspot.com/2022/10/full-program-y-2022-2023.html

Every meeting will last from 16.45 to 18.15 CET.Lectures and discussions will be held in English.For any query or information, and to receive the Zoom link please contact phenolab2019@gmail.com

For this year, the PhenoLab activities will be divided in four types:

I. Thematic group: the aim of this activity is to discuss cardinal themes related to mental health and phenomenology

II. Academic Lectures: scheduled once a month, a keynote speaker will be invited to present his/her work followed by a discussion

III. Encountering mental health professionals: scheduled once a month, a professional in the field of mental health will be invited to share how he/she handles with pragmatical issues in their practice, in order to show how phenomenology may be empirically helpful in daily practices. 

IV. Applying Phenomenology: scheduled once a month the aim of this activity is to provide some pedagogical orientations in exercising phenomenology 

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25 October 2022
Academic Lecture
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Francesca Brencio (University of Seville, Spain)
From digital medicine to embodied care

8 November
Encountering Mental Health Professionals
Speaker: Dr. Prisca Bauer (Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Germany)
Epileptic seizures as limit situations

22 November
Academic lecture
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sanneke de Haan (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) 
Self-illness ambiguity for people with recurrent depressions – Preliminary findings from an interview study

6 December
Applying Phenomenology
Speaker: Prof. Dr. James Morley (Ramapo College Of New Jersey, USA)
Teaching and learning phenomenology across disciplines

20 December
Thematic Group
Speaker: Dr. Clara Humpston (University of York, UK)
Paradoxes and ontologically impossible experiences in schizophrenia

10 January 2023

Encountering Mental Health Professional
Speaker: Dr. Cecilia Maria Esposito (University of Milano, Italy)
The phenomenological approach in clinical practice: overcoming stigma and diagnosis for a conception of hysteria as an existential position

24 January
Applying Phenomenology
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Magnus Englander (Malmo University, Sweden)
A Phenomenologically Based Empathy Training


7 February – Thematic groupSpeaker: Dr. Ragna Winniewski (University of Cologne, Germany)

Entangled senses and the affective self: Why kinaesthesia and synaesthesia matter for the lived body in dementia21 FebruaryThematic groupSpeaker: Dr. Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen (University of Cologne, Germany)

Phenomenological Psychopathology of Dementia: A Forgotten Task?

7 March

Applying Phenomenology

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Scott Churchill (University of Dallas, USA)

Doing Psychology Phenomenologically


28 March – Academic LectureSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg University, Germany)

The intercorporeality of touch18 AprilApplying PhenomenologySpeaker: Prof. Dr. Susi Ferrarello ( California State University East Bay, USA)

Phenomenology and Philosophical Counselling 


9 May – Academic LectureSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis, USA)

Disorders of the self-pattern


30 May – Encountering Mental Health ProfessionalSpeaker: Dr. Manuel Reyes (University of Chile, Chile)

“You should see patients!” On learning and teaching psychopathology

6 June – Applying PhenomenologySpeaker: Prof. Dr. Claire Petitmengin (Archives Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France)

Exploring the microdynamics of lived experience through micro-phenomenology


29 June – Academic LectureSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Francesca Michelini (University of Kassel, Germany)

Plessner and Enactivism 


4 July – Applying Phenomenology Speaker: Prof. Dr. Natalie Depraz (University of Rouen, France)

Why epochè is crucial in the practice of phenomenology?


25 July – Academic LectureSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Francesca Brencio (University of Seville, Spain)

Deciphering intersubjectivity in the context of the prescription of drugs

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