Course in Clinical Phenomenology. From theory to practice

In recent years there has been a growing interest in phenomenology from the mental health sciences, especially from psychology and psychiatry. The legacy of its classic texts (Jaspers, Binswanger, Minkowski, Tellenbach, Blankenburg), combined with more recent intersections with other fields of knowledge (such as cognitive sciences and enactivism) has produced a rich literature on how to apply phenomenology in clinical practice. It is exactly the question of how to deploy the phenomenological method in an interdisciplinary field that this course aims to explore.

The overarching aim of this online course is to offer a comprehensive introduction to the history, theory and practice of phenomenology in clinical contexts. Starting with historical and philosophical foundations, the course aims to show how the use of some categories of the phenomenological tradition (ie., self, subjectivity, embodiment, corporeality, temporality, spatiality, etc.) may enrich the understanding of psychopathological experiences and shape person-centred practices of care. In this course participants will not deal only with diagnostic nomenclatures, rather they will be guided toward the articulation of phenomenologically researchable questions which shed light on the alteration and disturbances which occur in the intersubjective domain.

The course is specifically designed for mental health professionals who are not familiar with the phenomenological tradition and its developments, but it is also open to philosophers and to those who work in the interdisciplinary field of philosophy and mental health.

In order to participate in the course, to receive the registration form and information about the payment, participants are invited to send an email to phenolab2019@gmail.com

Registration fees include synchrony lectures, teaching materials, and recordings.
Certificate of attendance will be issued at the end of the course.
Lectures and discussions will be held in English.

Total of hours: 34
Cost. 366 euros VAT included


                                           Salvador Dali', The Persistence of Memory, 1931



Program


Saturday, September 14th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Phenomenology for beginners: key concepts and course overview

Saturday, September 21st 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Edmund Husserl. From descriptive psychology to the transcendental turn

Saturday, September 28th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Martin Heidegger and the hermeneutical shift

Saturday, October 5th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Karl Jaspers. Descriptive phenomenology and role of psychiatry

Saturday, October 12th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Saturday, October 19th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Variety of depressive experiences (I part)

Saturday, October 26th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Variety of depressive experiences (II part)

Saturday, November 9th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Temporality in depressive experiences. Ludwig Binswanger, Eugen Minkowski (I part)

Saturday, November 16th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Temporality in depressive experiences. Erwin Strauss, Karl Jaspers, Hubertus Tellenbach (II part)

Saturday, November 23rd 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Lived body, corporeality and intercorporeality in depressive experiences

Saturday, December 7th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Schizophrenia: Emil Kraepelin, Eugen Bleuler and contemporary models of classification

Saturday, December 14th 2024, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Schizophrenia from a phenomenological approach. The first generation of psychiatrists using the phenomenological approach: Karl Jaspers, Ludwig Binswanger, Eugène Minkowski, Wolfgang Blankenburg

Saturday, January 11th 2025, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Schizophrenia from a phenomenological approach: contemporary approaches 

Saturday, January 18th 2025, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Hallucinations, delusions and the quest of meaning

Saturday, January 25th 2025, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Phenomenological interviews

Saturday, February 1th 2025, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: From clinical semiology to existential encounters

Saturday, February 8th 2025, h. 3-5 CET
Topic: Recognition, relationality and empathy in practices of care

Teacher:
Prof. Dr. Francesca Brencio, Director of the PhenoLab

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