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Konrad Banicki is a faculty member at the Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland as well as a convenor of an international research network: Understanding Personality Disorders (The Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine's College, Oxford). As a psychologist and a philosopher, he has strictly interdisciplinary research interests lying in the area between psychology, philosophy, psychotherapy and psychiatry. It includes, more particularly, personality (psycho)pathology, philosophy of psychiatry, eudaimonistic positive psychology and the variety of aspects related to mindfulness meditation.
Anna Bergqvist is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the Values-based Theory Network at St Catherine's Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on metaethics (esp. moral perception), philosophy of psychiatry and applied phenomenology concerning self-ownership and relational moral agency. She is editor of Evaluative Perception (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Philosophy and Museums (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She has also published on shared decision-making and cultural values in psychiatry. Bergqvist is Secretary of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section for Philosophy & Humanities in Psychiatry and Executive Committee Member of the Royal College of Psychiatry (RCPsych) SIG in Philosophy.
Francesca Brencio (University of Seville) is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Convener and Instructor at the Pheno-Lab, A Theoretical Laboratory on Philosophy and Mental Health, the Systemic Research and Psychotherapy Section at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Freiburg Medical Centre (Germany), and member of The Phenomenology and Mental Health Network at The Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health and Social Care, Catherine's College, University of Oxford (UK). Her main research interests are hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of psychiatry and phenomenological psychopathology. Recent publications include From Fixing to Thinking. Martin Heidegger's Contribution to Medical Cares, in C. Di Martino (ed.), Heidegger's Thought in the Contemporary Philosophical Debate. Society, Living, Technology, Springer 2021 (forthcoming); Positioning: Technology, Language and Politics in Light of What Is Question-Worthy, in "Heidegger Studien", 36, 2020, pp 291–310; Words Matter. A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Account to Mental Health (co-authored with P. Bauer) in "=Phenomenology and Mind, 18, 2020, pp. 68–77; 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 2019.
Elizabeth Flanagan is a Research Scientist in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. Her research focuses on health equity. One research line investigates stigma in health care, structural stigma, stigma in the community, and self-stigma including interventions to reduce stigma in health care providers and the community. Another research line investigates health disparities in the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addication Services (DMHAS) and interventions to address these disparities.
K.W.M. (Bill) Fulford is a Fellow of St Catherine's College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick, Founder Editor and Chair of the Advisory Board, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, and Director of The Collaborating Centre for Valuesbased Practice, St Catherine's College, Oxford (valuesbasedpractice.org).
Lorenzo Gilardi, 30, studied classics in high school and started a mathematics degree in university. Unfortunately, he was unable to complete it because of the onset of his schizophrenia. Given his intellectualistic proneness, he continued studying psychology and psychiatry, especially psychopathology, along with philosophy, anthropology, history, economics, political science, evolutionary biology, physics, linguistics, and so on. In the meantime, he worked part-time as a clerk and director in one of his mother's stores. His first publication is The Epiphany of the Body. Some Remarks on the Translation of Leib from German, in C. Tewes & G. Stanghellini, Body and Time (Cambridge University Press, in print).
Drew Leder has an MD from Yale University School of Medicine, and a PhD in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is currently a full professor teaching Western and Eastern Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. One of his latest books is The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing (University of Chicago 2016). The...
