Shaping new pathways
The PhenoLab was set up in 2019 as a free of charge series of seminars and lectures organised and held by Prof. Dr. Francesca Brencio . Originally born with the support of Dr. Prisca Bauer of the 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. Both an empirical circumstance (the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the consequent need to move online the lectures and seminars) and the growing interest in the field of phenomenology and mental health have allowed us to bring people from different regions of the world together, in a space which is unique for its openness and transdisciplinary. This is surely a sign of great hope for us: building bridges among philosophers and mental health workers can help to develop different skills and tools to care for people, not merely to treat a disease. The ai
