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 aim to promote and improve the interdisciplinary dialogue between phenomenology and mental health sciences is at the core of our efforts and nourishes our vision of a dialogue between medicine and philosophy, with at its centre the person with her constitutive vulnerability as a potential transformative resource in the healing journey.

Blue Painting by Wassily Kandinsky

From the Academic Year 2023-2024 the PhenoLab will offer a variety of activities, some free of charge (Academic Lecture and Encountering Health Professionals), some paid courses (Applying Phenomenology and Philosophical Counselling and Phenomenology).

The PhenoLab activities will start on October 10 2023.
The new program will be published within the beginning of September.
Lectures and discussions will be held in English.


For any query or information please contact phenolab2019@gmail.com 

At the moment the PhenoLab is under the process of evaluation and recognition for the ECTS credits.