Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology
We aim to reconstruct phenomenological psychopathology for the 21st century as an interdisciplinary approach with an inclusive account of the experience of mental illness.
Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology is a project that aims to apply interdisciplinary approaches to phenomenological psychopathology and diversify the field more broadly.
It is an International Exchange Award funded by the Wellcome Trust and will run from April 2022 to April 2024.
We propose to rejuvenate the field of phenomenological psychopathology in two key ways:
- Infuse phenomenological psychopathology with the recent contributions of analytic philosophy of mind, hermeneutics, structuralist/post-structuralist philosophy, history, literature, values-based practice, developmental psychology and service user research.
- Develop diverse international scholars from across disciplines and career stages to develop their research leadership and management activities.
Meet the team
Meet the team
Professor Matthew Broome leads the Renewing of Phenomenological Psychopathology Project.
Professor Giovanni Stanghellini
Professor Stanghellini leads the Renewing of Phenomenological Psychopathology Project. He is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at University of Florence (Italy), Dr. Phil. honoris causa, and profesor adjuncto at ‘D. Portales’ University in Santiago (Chile). He chairs the Scuola di Psicoterapia Fenomenologico-Dinamica in Florence (Italy), a four-year training program for post-graduate medical doctors and psychologists who want to specialize in phenomenological-dynamic psychotherapy. He founded with KWM Fulford and JZ Sadler the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry and the Oxford University Press Series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry.
Lucienne Spencer is a Wellcome Trust funded postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Birmingham, a Research Fellow of the Renewing of Phenomenological Psychopathology Project. Her research interests include phenomenology, epistemic injustice, and the philosophy of psychiatry. She completed her SWW-DTP funded PhD at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Professor Havi Carel and Dr Lisa El Refaie. Her PhD thesis was entitled 'Breaking the Silence: A Phenomenological Account of Epistemic Injustice and its role in Psychiatry', for which she received no corrections. She is also a member of the executive committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy UK. Her website is https://luciennespencer.com.
The Advisory board
The Advisory board
Professor Kevin Aho Department of Communication and Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University, U.S.A
Professor Lucy Bolton Film Studies Department, Queen Mary University, London, UK
Professor Havi Carel Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK
Dr Robert Chapman Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Professor Mona Gupta Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Canada
Professor Kouji Ishihara Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr Sofia Jeppsson Umeå University, Sweden
Dr Wouter Kusters Netherlands
Professor Matshepo Matoane University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Professor Guilherme Messas Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences, Brazil
Professor Ann Murphy University of New Mexico, U.S.A
Professor Barnaby Nelson The University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Danielle Petherbridge Department of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr Rob Sips Leuven, Belgium
Dr Cristian Ciocan University of Bucharest, Romania
Professor Joel Krueger University of Exeter, U.K.
Dr Valeria Bizzari Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy, Leuven, Belgium
Dr Tina Williams University of Bristol
Professor Daniela Ribeiro Schneider The Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Dr Szuszanna Chappell London, U.K.
Dr Lucy Osler Cardiff University, U.K.
Professor Sanneke de Haan Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Netherlands
Dr Elizabeth Pienkos Clarkson University, U.S.
Publications
Publications
Phenomenology as a resource for translational research in mental health: methodological trends, challenges and new directions, R. Ritunnano, D. Papola, M.R. Broome and B. Nelson. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, Volume 32, 16 January 2023
Epistemic injustice amongst clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers: A qualitative thematic analysis study. Olivia Harris, Carina Andrews, Matthew R. Broome, Claudia Kustner, Pamela Jacobsen, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 24 April 2022
Applied ontology for phenomenological psychopathology? A cautionary tale. Rosa Ritunnano, Giovanni Stanghellini, Anthony Vincent Fernandez, Jasper Feyaerts, Matthew Broome October, The Lancet 2022
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance. Clara Bergen, Lisa Bortolotti, Katherine Tallent, Matthew Broome, Michael Larkin, Rachel Temple, Catherine Fadashe, Carmen Lee, and Michele C. Lim, Theory & Psychology 2022, Vol. 32(5) 667–690, 2022
Making psychiatry moral again: the role of psychiatry in patient moral development, Journal of Medical Ethics, Doug McConnell, Matthew Broome, Julian Savulescu
Listening to voices: understanding and self-management of auditory verbal hallucinations in young adults.Peter Denno,Stephanie Wallis,Kimberly Caldwell,Jonathan IvesORCID Icon,Stephen J. Wood,Matthew R. Broome,Pavan Mallikarjun,Femi Oyebode &Rachel Upthegrove, pp. 281-292, Aug 2021, Psychosis, Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, Volume 14, 2022 - Issue 3
The phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations in emotionally unstable personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Stephanie Wallis, Peter Denno, Jonathan Ives, Pavan Mallikarjun, Stephen J Wood, Femi Oyebode, Matthew Broome, Rachel Upthegrove, 2022/6, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, Volume 39/2, pp. 196-206
Subjective experience and meaning of delusions in psychosis: a systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis. Rosa Ritunnano, Joshua Kleinman, Danniella Whyte Oshodi, Maria Michail, Barnaby Nelson, Clara S Humpston, Matthew R Broome, 2022/5/4. The Lancet Psychiatry
Towards personalised predictive psychiatry in clinical practice: an ethical perspective. Natalie Lane, Matthew Broome, 2022/4. The British Journal of psychiatry. Volume 22/4. Pp. 172-174
Finding order within the disorder: a case study exploring the meaningfulness of delusions, 12 January 2021, Rosa Ritunnano, Clara Humpston and Matthew R. Broome, BJPsych Bulletin, Volume 46, Issue 2
2022 Se-duction is not sex-duction: Desexualizing and de-feminizing hysteria. In FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY vol. 13, Mancini, Milena; Scudiero, Martina; Mignogna, Silvio; Urso, Valentina; Stanghellini, Giovanni
2022 Se-duction is not sex-duction: Desexualizing and de-feminizing hysteria. In FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY vol. 13, Mancini, Milena; Scudiero, Martina; Mignogna, Silvio; Urso, Valentina; Stanghellini, Giovanni
2022 Se-duction is not sex-duction: Desexualizing and de-feminizing hysteria. In FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY vol. 13, Mancini, Milena; Scudiero, Martina; Mignogna, Silvio; Urso, Valentina; Stanghellini, Giovanni
2022 Homo oeconomicus: a key for understanding late modernity narcissism?. In PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, Giovanni Stanghellini
2022 The person's position-taking in the shaping of schizophrenic phenomena. In PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY Stanghellini, G; Aragona, M; Gilardi, L; Ritunnano, R
2022 The Power of Images and the Logics of Discovery in Psychiatric Care. In BRAIN SCIENCES G. Stanghellini
2022 Divina presenza. La porta mistica, erotica ed estetica l'esperienza dell'informe - ISBN: 978-88-229-0700-4 Giovanni Stanghellini
2022 Grounding Co-Writing: An Analysis of the Theoretical Basis of a New Approach in Mental Health Care. DOI: 10.1111/jpm.12835. In JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING. Faccio, Elena; Pocobello, Raffaella; Vitelli, Roberto; Stanghellini, Giovanni
2022 Anorexia nervosa as a disorder of the subcortical-cortical interoceptive-self. DOI: 10.1007/s40519-022-01510-7. In EATING AND WEIGHT DISORDERS vol. 27, Lucherini Angeletti, Lorenzo; Innocenti, Matteo; Felciai, Federica; Ruggeri, Emanuele; Cassioli, Ema et al.
2022 Understanding Other Persons: a Guide for the Perplexed. In The Clinician in the Psychiatric Diagnostic Process, Giovanni Stanghellini
2022 Ordinary Language and Life-World Philosophies: Toward the Next Generation in Philosophy and Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2022.0000. In Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology vol. 29. Fulford K.W.M.; Stanghellini G.; Sadler J.Z.
2022 Psychopathology and Mental Status Examination. In Textbook of Psychiatry for Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Giovanni Stanghellini
2022 Transdiagnostic assessment of temporal experience (TATE) a tool for assessing abnormal time experiences. DOI: 10.1007/s11097-021-09795-2. In PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES vol. 21. Stanghellini G.; Mancini M.; Fernandez A.V.; Moskalewicz M.; Pompili M.; Ballerini M.
2022 Monty Python without the Laughs. In Life Pushed Aside: Clair Wills on Netherne Hospital. In History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group. Giovanni Stanghellini
2022 From the Patient’s Perspective: Engaging With the Other. DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2022.0049. In PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY vol. 29. Stanghellini G.
2022 Walter Benjamin: brooding and melancholia. DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2021.180. In BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY vol. 220 Ikkos G.; Stanghellini G.
2022 Images of depression in Charles Baudelaire: clinical understanding in the context of poetry and social history. DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2022.84. In BJPSYCH BULLETIN Stanghellini, Giovanni; Ikkos, George
2022 Sensibility and schizophrenia: Wilhelm Waiblinger on Friedrich Hölderlin's life, poetry and madness – psychiatry in literature. In BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, Stanghellini
2022 Applied ontology for phenomenological psychopathology? A cautionary tale. DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(22)00301-7. In THE LANCET. PSYCHIATRY vol. 9, Ritunnano R.; Stanghellini G.; Fernandez A.V.; Feyaerts J.; Broome M.
2022 The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics. DOI: 10.1002/wps.20959. In WORLD PSYCHIATRY vol. 21, Fusar-Poli, Paolo; Estradé, Andrés; Stanghellini, Giovanni; Venables, Jemma; Onwumere, Juliana; Messas, Guilherme.
Hermeneutical Injustice and Unworlding in Psychopathology, Philosophical Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2166821, 2023
(2023) Epistemic Injustice in Late-Stage Dementia: A Case for Non-Verbal Testimonial Injustice, Social Epistemology, 37:1, 62-79, DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2022.2103474, 2023
Ian James Kidd, Lucienne Spencer & Havi Carel (2022) Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice, Philosophical Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2156333, 2023
“Epistemic Injustice and Making Sense of Things in Dementia” in A transdisciplinary experience in Phenomenology, Neuroscience and Clinical Practices, Francesca Brencio (ed.), forthcoming, 2023.
“Lived Experiences, Illness and Epistemic Injustices in Lockdown” in Time For Debate: Perspectives on Lockdowns from the Humanities and Social Science, Peter Sutoris, Sinead Murphy, Aleida Mendes Borges and Yossi Nehushtan (eds.), Routledge, 2022.
“Vulnerability, Well Being and Mental Health” in Vulnerability of the Human World, Susi Ferrarello and Elodie Boublil (eds.), Springer, 2022.
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