About the Authors

Gaston Franssen is Assistant Professor of Literary Culture at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His current research topics include contemporary Dutch and American-English literature, reception aesthetics, bestseller authorship, literary celebrity, literary fandom, performance poetry, discourses of subjectivity, and therapeutic fiction and the narrative self in mental healthcare. At present, he is working on the multi-disciplinary research project Management of the self: A humanities approach to self-management in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

Thomas Fuchs is a psychiatrist and philosopher, and the Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg; He is Head of the Section "Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychiatry"; Coordinator of the Marie-Curie Research Training Network "Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity" (TESIS); and Co-Editor-in-Chief of "Psychopathology".

Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. His areas of research include phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, especially topics related to embodiment, self, agency and intersubjectivity, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of time. Professor Gallagher holds the Anneliese Maier Research Award [Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis] (2012–17), a recently established 5-year Humboldt Fellowship.

Gerrit Glas holds the Dooyeweerd chair for philosophy at VU University Amsterdam. He is member of the board of the Abraham Kuyper Center for Science and Religion. He is also psychiatrist and director residency training in Dimence, hospital for mental health care in the province of Overijssel (Netherlands). He publishes on topics at the interface between psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience, ethics, and religion.

Peter Henningsen is the Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, situated at the Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, one of the three top Medical Faculties of German Universities. The Department is internationally renowned for its research in three disciplines: a) psychosocial diagnostics and therapy for patients with bodily complaints and illnesses (somatoform disorders, trauma-related disorders); b) psychotherapy research; c) neurobiological research for patients with psychosomatic disorders, including pain (neuroimaging, psychophysiology). Peter Hen-ningsen is the principal investigator and leader of the working group "Somatoform and Bodily Oriented Psychotherapy".

Daniel D. Hutto is Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Wollongong. His most recent books, include: Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy (Palgrave, 2006), Folk Psychological Narratives (MIT, 2008). He is co-author of the award-winning Radicalizing Enactivism (MIT, 2013) and editor of Narrative and Understanding Persons (CUP, 2007) and Narrative and Folk Psychology (Imprint Academic, 2009). A special yearbook, Radical Enactivism, focusing on his philosophy of intentionality, phenomenology and narrative, was published in 2006. He regularly speaks at conferences and expert meetings for clinical psychiatrists, educationalists, narratologists, neuroscientists and psychologists.

John T. Lysaker's current work involves a short study of Brian Eno's Music for Airports and a monograph on philosophy's relation to writing entitled Committed to Writing, both recently completed and under review. Ongoing concerns include: {a} art and pragmatics; {b} sense of self and its fate in schizophrenia; and {c} the nature of friendship.

Paul H. Lysaker is a clinical psychologist with over 25 years experience providing services to adults with severe mental illness. His teaching interests include teaching new mental health professionals to provide forms of psychotherapy that promote recovery for persons suffering from psychosis. His research interests include understanding the roots of psychosocial dysfunction among persons with schizophrenia as well as developing interventions that assist persons with psychosis to reject stigma, to succeed in a work setting and to forge a new positive personal identity.

Frank Röhricht is a Consultant Psychiatrist; Body Psychotherapist (since 1987); Honorary Professor Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex and Honorary Professor of Psychiatry St. George's Medical School, University of Nicosia / Cyprus. Since 1997 to date working as General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, in Newham/East London; special interest in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy of psychosis. 2000–2013 Clinical Director for Adult Mental Health East London NHS Foundation Trust. Since 2013 Associate Medical Director Research & Innovation

Heribert Sattel is Senior Researcher in the working group "Somatoform and Bodily Oriented Psychotherapy". Earlier, he coordinated national multicenter...