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Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology Project Launch, 14th October 2022

 Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology Project Launch, 14th October 2022


Through this launch event, we invited critical reflection on the theme of renewing phenomenological psychopathology. The Launch Event introduced the award, kicked-off initial engagement with academic stakeholders in order to frame research questions and plans for the next two years.

Thanks to the generous support of Wellcome, the Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology project was formally launched at the University of Birmingham and via Zoom on the 14th of October 2022. This was a one-day hybrid event, with online and in-person panels running simultaneously. In total we had fifteen excellent speakers from multiple backgrounds and of all career stages. We had around fifty in person attendees and over 100 online attendees. 

Following introductions from the project team, our launch event was kicked off by our first keynote speaker Dr Robert Chapman from Sheffield Hallam University, with their talk entitled ‘Marx and Mental Health: Alienation in a Post-Fordist Era’. In this talk Robert focused on experiences of mental illness and disablement in a post-Fordist era, with an emphasis on this era’s heavy reliance on cognitive and emotional labour.

You can watch a recording of the event introduction and Robert's keynote talk here.

This was followed by our second keynote, Dr Lucy Bolton from Queen Mary University of London, with her talk entitled ‘Fear Itself, and Not the Statement “I Am afraid”:  Film Phenomenology: Consciousness, Bodies, and Lived Experience’. Here, Lucy traces back the development of film-phenomenology in order to demonstrate that phenomenology as an approach to film is enabling for both the film and those who encounter it. She argued that this open, receptive, and inclusive orientation is grounded in the recognition of a variety of possibilities, not all of which are reducible to neat theoretical categories. 

You can watch a recording of Lucy's keynote talk here.

After lunch we ran three simultaneous panels, two solely online and one hybrid. During these panels we heard incredible talks from the following academics:   

In-person Panel: Intersections

Online Panel 1: Phenomenological Psychopathology: Bringing the Past into the Future 

Online Panel 2: Global and Interdisciplinary Methods in Phenomenological Psychopathology  

Rosa Ritunnano- Investigating the Meaning of Delusions at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Applied Linguistics 

Mariana Cardoso Puchivailo - Anomalies of Self-Experience in First Psychotic Episodes: Differential Diagnostics between Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Dissociative Disorders 

Janko Nešić -Ecological Psychopathology of Autism Spectrum Disorder 

Cat Fischer- Making the Body Home Again: Phenomenological Insights into Anorexia Nervosa 

Nandini Chakraborty -The Importance of Embedding Psychopathology and Phenomenology in Clinical Practice and Training in Psychiatry 

Santiago Sourigues -The Transpositive Structure of the Word and the Bond to the Other. An Interdisciplinary Approach from Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Literature. 

Mollie Cornell- A (Court)Room with a View: The Role of Phenomenology in the Court of Protection

Felipe Arruda- The Concept of Paraphrenia:d Rebirth of a Psychopathological Concept 

Marucela Uscamayta Ayvar- Phenomenology of Mental Illness in the Andes of Cusco, Peru 

Jodie Louise Russell- Self-interpretation, Agency and Mental Disorder

Guilherme Messas- How Learning from History can Help can help to Foster a Successful New Era of Phenomenological Psychopathology 

Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen- Ontology of Phenomenological Psychopathology (OPheP): A Collaborative, Decentralised, and Open-science Initiative for the 21st Century 

The launch event was brought to a close by our final keynote speaker, Professor Kevin Aho from Florida Gulf Coast University in the U.S., with his talk entitled: 'Phenomenological Psychopathology in the Age of Anti-Depressants'. Kevin argued that the medicalisation of mental illness and the overprescribing of antidepressants is a very real problem and that antidepressants can be valuable from a phenomenological perspective insofar as they act on the meaning-structures that are disrupted in mental illness. 

You can watch a recording of Kevin's keynote talk here.

Here are a couple of conference related blogs on 'Hermeneutical Injustice and the depths of depression' by Ian James Kidd and 'Loss and Grief in the Context of Mental Illness' by Bernice Brijan. 



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