PhenoLab - who we are
The PhenoLab was set up in 2019 as a series of seminars and lectures organised and held by Prof. Dr. Francesca Brencio, Director of the PhenoLab. Originally born with the support of Dr. Prisca Bauer (Systemic Research and Psychotherapy Section at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Freiburg Medical Centre - Germany), from October 2021 the PhenoLab activities have proceeded autonomously under the sole responsibility of Prof. Brencio. Through academic lectures, clinical phenomenology courses, and an international summer school, the PhenoLab aims to develop person-centered approaches to psychological care that recognize mental health challenges as profound existential experiences. The overarching aim of the lab is to promote and improve the interdisciplinary dialogue between phenomenology and mental health sciences, nourishing the vision of a broader dialogue between philosophy and medicine, with at its center the person with her constitutive vulnerability as a potentia...
