Francesca Brencio

University of Birmingham · School of Psychology

F. Brencio (2024), Introduction in F. Brencio (ed.) Phenomenology, Neuroscience and Clinical Practice. Transdisciplinary Experiences, Springer-Nature, Cham, pp. 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66264-5_1

in F. Salis, M. Sannipoli (a cura di), Interazioni dialogiche. Parole della Pedagogia speciale, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce 2024, pp. 155-168

This contribution explores the significance of Marco Cavallo in the history of psychiatry using Walter Benjamin’s concept of Bildwissenschaft. Here the concept of the image and the idea of fragmentation are seen as bringing to the surface certain thought-images (Denkbilder). As properly pre-theoretical (vor-weltlich) elements of our cognition, imag...

1ST PHENOLAB SUMMER SCHOOL in UMBRIA "APPLYING PHENOMENOLOGY: HOW, WHY AND WHEN" June 3-7, 2024 Palazzo Trinci in Foligno (PG), Umbria Full program available at https://phenolab.blogspot.com/2024/03/1st-phenolab-summer-school-program.html

Special Issue for Frontiers in Psychology https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/46802/phenomenological-psychopathology-who-what-and-how-an-analysis-of-key-figures-advancements-and-challenges Ed. by S. Ferrarello, F. Brencio, V. Bizzari, M. Englander Phenomenology and psychopathology are two disciplines whose development intertwined over the...

F. Brencio (2023), Quel che resta delle cose. Riccardo de Biase lettore di Heidegger, in G. Giannini, P. Marangolo, M. Papa (eds.), Segni. Studi in memoria di Riccardo De Biase, TAB Edizioni, Roma 2023, pp. 171-182, ISBN: 978-88-9295-769-5

Through this contribution I aim to explore the horizons and limits of digital medicine in light of an embodied approach to the issue of care. I will sketch the historical background of digital medicine and show the contemporary status of this interdisciplinary field, as well as its applications and outcomes. Then, I will address a critique of the c...

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F. Brencio (2023), Embodied Attention. A phenomenological hypothesis, in D. Stoyanov (Ed.), Contemporary Neuropsychiatry: Implications from Cognitive Neuroscience, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 26-42. More info at: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9455-5

Available at https://www.psichiatriafilosofia.com/documenti.html

F. Brencio (2022), «…this phenomenon, which is none too happily designated as ‘empathy’». Martin Heidegger’s critique of empathy, in “Bollettino Filosofico”, 37, 243-251, ISSN: 1593 – 7178, E-ISSN 2035 - 2670

The overarching aim of this contribution is to show how there are many elements in the making of a psychiatric diagnosis that are not confined to the nature of the “disease”—a topic that would require another work in order to be properly clarified—but rather that are grounded in the historical context and social elements. The circular and mutual in...

The overarching aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive account of melancholic depression from the perspective of hermeneutic phenomenology. More specifically, we propose that this condition should be interpreted as an alteration in the intentional arc that affects corporeality, temporality, and spatiality, rather than as a mood disorder. I...

12. F. Brencio, (2022) [in italian] Martin Heidegger e il pensiero della cura, in “La società degli individui”, n. 73, XXV, 2022/1, pp. 35-44, ISSN 1590-7031, ISSNe 1972-5752, DOI 10.3280/LAS2022-073004

F. Brencio (2022), From words to worlds. How metaphors and language shape mental health, in S. Wuppuluri, A. C. Grayling (eds.), Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities: Words and Worlds, Springer, pp. 233-250, eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90688-7, Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90687-0, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7

This paper defends the idea that alterations in social perception of people with epilepsy may be crucial in the development of co-morbidities, involving a circular and mutual relationship between the person and her/his social environment, between the self and the world. We aim at exploring the role of these processes in psychopathological phenomena...

Author: Thomas Fuchs Italian Translation by F. Brencio in F. Brencio (a cura di/ed.), Dal corpo oggetto alla mente incarnata - From the object body to the embodied mind, in “InCircolo – Rivista di Filosofia e Culture”, 11, pp. 21-59 ISSN 2531-4092 http://www.incircolorivistafilosofica.it/la-circolarita-della-mente-incarnata/

45. F. Brencio (2021), [In Spanish] Fenomenología y psicopatología, in C. Moreno Márquez (ed.), En torno a la Inquietud. Consideraciones fenomenologicas, Herder Editorial, Barcelona 2021, pp. 345-363, ISBN 978-84-254-4405-0

This paper aims to pursue two goals: first, it will explore the encounter and dialogue between Martin Heidegger’s thinking toward medicine, and in particular, psychiatry. Second, it will look toward understanding how this encounter can illuminate clinical practices and provide significant contributions within the fields of medical education and hea...

Volume monografico de "I quaderni della ginestra" Curatori: F. Brencio, V. Bizzari e F. Andolfi n. 23, anno 2020/1, ISSN 2240 – 337X http://www.la-ginestra.com/quaderni/meditazioni-filosofiche/

THE WPA 2020 THEMATIC CONGRESS ON INTERSECTIONAL COLLABORATION PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA "GLOBAL BURDEN ON MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH" 10-12 DECEMBER 2020, ATHENS, GREECE.

Through this contribution I aim to show how the role of language and metaphors is fundamental to our understanding of reality, affecting the way we ordinarily act and live, and particularly important in facing fears and anguish. This is more evident in these times of the COVID-19 pandemic, where our experiences of language and of the world seem to...

The British Society for Phenomenology - Annual Conference 2020 "Engaged Phenomenology" Hosted by University of Exeter (UK) Exeter, UK, 3 – 5 September (online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

The problem of names of illnesses is both a problem of words and values that should address not only the classification of disorders, but also a fundamental question both for medical sciences and humanities: can psychiatric nosology and classifications fit with the ontological constitution of human beings? This paper aims to discuss the so-called “...

University of Birmingham (UK), The Third International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, July 21 – 23 – Birmingham (online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

Recensione pubblicata in "Psicologia Fenomenologica": https://www.psicologiafenomenologica.it/articolo/smarrimenti-della-carne-figure-del-corpo/

in A. Molaro, G. Stanghellini (Eds.), Storia della fenomenologia clinica, UTET, Torino 2020, pp. 171-188 ISBN 978-88-6008-598-6

Viktor E. von Gebsattel, in A. Molaro, G. Stanghellini (Eds.), Storia della fenomenologia clinica UTET, Torino 2020, pp. 85-102 ISBN 978-88-6008-598-6

in A. P. Ruoppo (ed.), Essere e Tempo novanta anni dopo. Attualita’ ed inattualita’ dell’analitica esistenziale, Quaderni della Scuola di Scienze Umane e sociali dell'Università di Napoli "Federico II”, FedOA Press, Napoli 2019, pp. 213-229 ISBN: 978-88-6887-064-5 DOI: 10.6093/978-88-6887-064-5

This paper aims to rebuild the relationship between the Seinsfrage and Catholicism in Heidegger’s meditation and to shed light on his critique to Christianity (in terms of Christentum) as a philosophical necessity rooted in his broader critique of modernity in the context of the Black Notebooks. In order to reach these purposes, this contribution w...

Invited speaker in the frame of the workshop entitled “I presupposti filosofici della psichiatria”, Verona 28-29 Ottobre

University of Zagreb (Croatia), 3rd Transdisciplinary and International Symposium, in cooperation with Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics, Croatian Bioethics Society, Ludruga Association and Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, November 21-23 2019

Conference presentation in the frame of the panel entitled "Disruptions. Moods, feelings and atmospheres in affective disorders and schizophrenia" 21th Annual Conference of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry entitled "Experts in Mental Health" 22-24 October 2019 - Warsaw

Conference presentation in the frame of the panel entitled "Phenomenology as a Source for Psychiatry: Diagnosis, Therapy and Training" 5th Conference on Traditions and Perspectives of the Phenomenological Movement in Central and Eastern Europe “Shifting Roles. The Manifold Identities of Phenomenology” Bucharest, 26-28 September 2019

Selected paper for the British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference 2019 International Anthony Burgess Foundation Manchester, UK 5 - 7 September 2019 "The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology" https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-annual-conference-2019-papers-and-biographies/

Selected paper for the Philosophy Special Interest Group Biennial Meeting The Royal College of Psychiatrists "Madness, the mind and politics, exploring the relationship between psychiatry and politics" London, September 3 2019 https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/conferences/detail/2019/09/02/default-calendar/philosophy-special-interest-group-annual-...

University of Manchester (UK) On the History of Being – after the Black Notebooks May 31- June 2nd 2019 Keynote speaker

in G. Stanghellini, A. Raballo, M. Broome, A. V. Fernandez, P. Fusar-Poli, and R. Rosfort (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019, pp. 344-353, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803157.013.39, ISBN: 9780198803157

Panel for the XVII ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NORDIC SOCITY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY entitled "Phenomenology of Social Life" University of Copenhagen 25-27 April, 2019

Università degli Studi di Genova, Società Italiana di Psichiatria: Vivere come un essere umano. Dall’homo natura all’homo existentia, Congress entitled Storia e Psichiatria. Metodologia, Temi, Fonti, Palazzo Ducale di Genova, Biblioteca della Società Ligure di Storia Patria di Genova, March 21-23, 2019.

Please note that the printed version is slightly different from the proofs F. Brencio (2019), Befindlichkeit: Disposition, in G. Stanghellini, A. Raballo, M. Broome, A. V. Fernandez, P. Fusar-Poli, and R. Rosfort (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019, pp. 344-353, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordh...

Este ensayo se propone conseguir tres objetivos fundamentales: en primer lugar, reconstruir el diálogo que Heidegger ha entretejido con la medicina y, de un modo particular, con la psiquiatría y la psicología en términos de una crítica y de una revisión del método aplicado a las ciencias médicas a través de la propuesta de una nueva aproximación co...

IFK – Kunst Universität Linz in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, International Congress entitled Gegen das Leben, gegen die Welt, gegen mich selbst. Figuren der Negativität, Wien, January 16-18 2019

18th Annual Conference of the Polish Phenomenological Association entitled “Phenomenology of time and space”, in association with Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Phenomenology and Mental Health Network, The Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice, St. Catherine...

The analysis of mental disorders necessarily requires careful and multilayered reflection. Psychiatry is indeed focused on complex phenomena and symptoms that can be only partly traced back to merely quantitative objectifiable data. This is the reason why we witness a growing methodological and conceptual “mutual enlightenment” between philosophy a...

University of Oxford (UK), St. Catherine’s College, one-day workshop entitled "Diversity and Mental Illness": Living as human being. From homo natura to homo existentia, October 24th 2018.

Invited speaker at the International Conference entitled “Was heißt Stiften“? Heidegger interprete di Hölderlin" Organised by Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici di Roma 18-19 Settembre 2018

Invited Keynote Speaker in the frame of "18th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World", organised by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Accademia della Crusca

Invited speaker at Centro MaMu – Arte e Cura nella Globalità dei Linguaggi Napoli

Invited Speaker at the International Conference entitled "Essere e Tempo. Novanta anni dopo" Napoli, 12-13 Aprile Accademia Pontaniana Università degli Studi di Napoli Dipartimento di Filosofia

Invited speaker at Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg Conference Series entitled "(Un-) Wert von Kultur"

This paper aims to explore the “pathic” dimension of existence, which is both the capacity of being affected and being situated within moods and atmospheres. The broader sphere it intends to pursue is to show how the “pathic” dimension of existence is related to psychopathology and clinical practice, such as affective disorders and schizophrenia. I...

in Menschenbilder Ost und West, ed. by H. C. Günther, Verlag Bautz, Nordhausen 2018, pp.249-270, ISBN 978-3-95948-360-5.

in “Science et Esprit: revue théologique et philosophique”, 70/3, 2018, pp. 381-392, ISSN 0316-5345.

Review: Quel “pericoloso” interrogare. Riflessioni intorno al volume di Costantino Esposito Introduzione a Heidegger (Il Mulino, 2017, pp. 307 – 26,00 euro), in “Giornale di Metafisica”, Morcelliana, Brescia 2018, pp. 360-362.

Universitat de Barcelona, Facultad de Filosofía, VIII Congreso Internacional de Bioética “Filosofía y Salud Mental” (23-24 Noviembre, 2017), in : http://aporia.cat/publicacions/

Universita’ degli Studi di Milano (Italy), Department of Philosophy, International Congress entitled “Perché Heidegger. Viventi, società e tecnica: il pensiero heideggeriano nel dibattito filosofico contemporaneo”, November 29-30 2017

“Heidegger Jahrbuch”, Alber Verlag, 11, 2017, pp. 148-164, ISBN: 978-3-495-45711-5

Akademie Deutsch-Italienischer Studien (Merano – Italy), Congress entitled Menschenbilder Ost und West, organised by A. von Humboldt Stiftung- May 4-6 2017

Inivited Speaker International Congress entitled "The Problem of Evil in Modern and Contemporary European Philosophy" Bishop’s University (Quebec), Department of Philosophy April 28-29, 2017.

in “Idee. Rivista del Dipartimento di Filosofia dell’Universita’ del Salento”, a cura di G. Rizzo, 2017, pp. 13-36.

in “Magazzino di Filosofia. Quadrimestrale di informazione, bilancio ed esercizio della filosofia”, a cura di A. Marini, 29, 2017, pp. 39-95.

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), Faculty of Philosophy, – November 2-4 2016

Universidad de Saragozza (Spain), Faculty of Philosophy, 12th International Congress of Spanish Society of Philosophical Anthropology – September 28-30 2016

6th International Conference on Trauma in Budapest (Hungary): The Continuum of Trauma, March 11-13 2016.

“Ius fugit. Revista de cultura Jurìdica”, monographic issue on “El mal. Su Historia, Su Derecho”, Universidad de Girona, Universidad de Zaragoza y Institución «Fernando el Católico», 19, 2016, pp. 87-134, ISSN: 1132-8975.

Desmontando el antisemitismo de Heidegger. Presentación de un estudio sobre los Cuadernos Negros en Pavía in “Dialogo Filosofico” - Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 96, 2016, pp. 433-437.

Presentación del volumen F. W. von Herrmann – F. Alferi, Martn Heidegger. La verita’ sui Quaderni Neri, Morcelliana Editrice, Brescia 2016, in “Differenz. Revista Internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporaneas”, Universidad de Sevilla, 2, 2016, pp. 254-258

Il filosofo e la grande guerra. Recensione a Les Philosophes et la guerre del 1914-1918. Sous la direction de Stefan Leclercq, Sils Maria Editions, 2015, in “Psiche. Il pensiero in tempo di guerra”, Il Mulino 2016, pp. 603-608

Martin Heidegger was one of the most influential but also criticized philosophers of the XX century. With Being and Time 1927 he sets apart his existential analytic from psychology as well as from anthropology and from the other human sciences that deny the ontological foundation, overcoming the Cartesian dualism in search of the ontological unit o...

The Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger was one of the first psychiatrists who used in his medical approach the Daseinsanalyse of Martin Heidegger to understand the mental disorders of his patients. However, as it is well known, one of the most critical interlocutors of Binswanger was Heidegger himself. Rebuilding the relationship between Heidegge...

University of Oxford (UK), TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities: Event and subjectivity. Heidegger’s phenomenology of Ereignis and its relationship with psychopathological phenomena, International Congress entitled "Phenomenology and Health", March 27-28, 2015.

in “Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana”, 18, 2015, pp. 217-246, ISSN 2450-5358, DOI 10.12775

in “La Filosofia Futura”, n. 4, 2015, pp. 69-86.

Universita’ degli Studi di Pisa (Italy), Department if Philosophy: Hegel, Heidegger and desire: from Begierde to Sorge, International Conference on “Hegel and the Phenomenological Movement”, June 10 -13 2014.

Wien Universität (Austria), Faculty of Philosophy: The “passion” of finitude. The young Hegel as Post-Kantian, 30th International Hegel-Congress of the International Hegel-Society, April 23- 26 2014.

22nd European Congress of Psychiatry in Münich (Germany): Care and being-in-the world: Heidegger’s philosophy and its implications for psychiatry, April 1–4, 2014