The field of phenomenological psychopathology (PP) is concerned with exploring and describing the individual
experience of those suffering from mental disorders. Whilst there is often an understandable emphasis within
psychiatry on diagnosis and treatment, the subjective experience of the individual is frequently overlooked. Yet
a patient's own account of how their illness affects their thoughts, values, consciousness, and sense of self, can
provide important insights into their condition - insights that can complement the more empirical findings from
studies of brain function or behaviour.
The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology is the first ever comprehensive review of the field. It
considers the history of PP, its methodology, key concepts, and includes a section exploring individual experiences within schizophrenia, depression, borderline personality disorder, OCD, and phobia. In addition it includes chapters on some of the leading figures throughout the history of this field.
Bringing together chapters from a global team of leading academics, researchers and practitioners, the book will be valuable for those within the fields of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and philosophy.
Giovanni Stanghellini, Professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology, 'G. d'Annunzio' University, Italy, Matthew Broome, Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK, Anthony Vincent Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Kent State University, USA, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Reader in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK, Andrea Raballo, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy, Rene Rosfort, Associate professor of ethics and philosophy of religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Giovanni Stanghellini, MD and Dr. Phil. honoris causa, psychiatrist, is professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at "G. d'Annunzio" University (Chieti, Italy), Profesor Adjuncto "D. Portales" University (Santiago, Chile) and chair of the Scuola di Psicoterapia Fenomenologico-Dinamica in Florence. He is one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy of psychiatry and phenomenological psychopathology. Among his books published by Oxford University Press: Nature and Narrative (with KWM Fulford, K. Morris and JZ Sadler, OUP 2003), Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies. The Psychopathology of Common Sense (OUP 2004), Emotions and Personhood (with R. Rosfort, OUP 2013), One Ceentury of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology (with T. Fuchs, OUP 2013), the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (with KWM Fulford et al., OUP 2013) and Lost in dialogue. Anthropology, pychopathology and care (OUP 2016).
Matthew Broome is Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health and Director of the Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, UK. Matthew trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, Bethlem Royal Hospital, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and has a PhD in Psychiatry from the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK and in Philosophy from the University of Warwick, UK. He is a former chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a founder member of the Maudsley Philosophy Group, and is series editor to the Oxford University Press series, International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry. He is deputy editor for the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Anthony Vincent Fernandez received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of South Florida in 2016. He is currently an assistant professor of philosophy at Kent State University. His work is on the foundations of applied phenomenology, focusing on the challenges of applying phenomenology to domains that it was not originally designed to study-especially psychopathology.
Andrea Raballo MD, Spec. Psych., PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Perugia, Italy, where he serves as scientific and clinical Head of the Center for Translational, Phenomenological and Developmental Psychopathology. He is currently co-chair of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section for Clinical Psychopathology, and board member of both the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) and the IEPA Early Intervention in Mental Health. His main research interests are phenomenological and developmental psychopathology, with a specific focus on child-adolescent vulnerability and related trajectories towards more severe mental disorders. He is also interested in developing innovative frameworks for service implementation.
Rene Rosfort, born 1975 in Copenhagen, Denmark (PhD, University of Copenhagen, 2008) has studied theology in Copenhagen and philosophy in Florence, Italy. His research deals primarily with ethics, phenomenology, and hermeneutics from the combined perspective of philosophy and psychiatry, and with a particular interest in Kant, Kierkegaard, Ricoeur.
