Francesca Brencio

Deadline today for the 3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Italy!!
A stellar line-up of internationally renowned speakers in the heart of Italy 💚
"Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the Lived Experience of Illness and Care"

Less than 10 days to send your proposal to present at the 3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria!!
Deadline February 15.
Registrations for non presenting participants opened until June 1st.
Looking forward to welcoming you in Spoleto!

A heartfelt thanks to the @thebsp.org.uk for their support toward our 3rd Summer School in Umbria! ❤️
Deadline for the cfp: February 15!

A heartfelt thank to The International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry for their support toward our 3rd Summer School in Umbria!
#Phenomenology and #Medicine. Exploring the #Lived #Experience of #Illness and #Care
Deadline for the call for papers: February 15!!
inpponline.com/announcement...

Grateful to The Collaborating Centre for Values-based practice in Health and Social Care at the St Catherine's College Oxford for the support to our 3rd Summer School in Umbria. Prof. Ashok Handa,
Director of the Centre, will be one of the Keynote Speakers!

valuesbasedpractice.org/announcement...

Did you sign up for the 3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria?

3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria (Italy) Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the Lived Experience of Illness and Care When : June 8-12, 2026 Venue : Palazzo Mauri in Spoleto (PG...

🎉📌🗓️3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria (Italy)
"Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the Lived Experience of Illness and Care"
June 8-12, 2026
Palazzo Mauri in Spoleto (PG)
Call for papers available here: phenolab.blogspot.com/2025/12/3rd-...

DEADLINE: February 15, 2026

Finally out!!
3rd @phenolab.bsky.social Summer School in Umbria
"Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the lived experience of Illness and Care"
Deadline for submission February 15, 2026

Delighted to see our paper published in the The British Journal of Psychiatry.
Ikkos G, Becker T, Stanghellini G, Brencio F, Morgan A, Hoff P. "An Emil Kraepelin centenary: psychiatry’s long 20th century, 1899–2026 and after"

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Network Seminar: "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health", January 14th, Birmingham and Online Emotions are important drivers of human behaviour. They help shape our goals and desires and endow our lives with meaning. Insights into emo...

📌🗓 Save the date!
January 14 2026, the 3 workshop of our @uobphenomenal.bsky.social, entitled "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health".

More info at birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...

It has been a pleasure to present on December 2nd a work of mine entitled "Phenomenological inquiry into #Metaphors in #Schizophrenia spectrum disorders" at the Forschungskolloquium at the University of Kassel.
Very grateful for the invitation!

Delighted to see "Psychiatry after Kraepelin: Ambition, Images, Practices 1926–2026" for @springernature.com (eds. G. Ikkos & T. Becker). Honoured to have contributed a chapter on how #psychiatry intersects with #socialvalues, using the #asperger diagnosis as case
link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Very pleased to have inaugurated the Passau Lectures on #Political #emotions at the University of Passau.
Very grateful for the invitation!

Some pics of the conference on affective disorders I attended at the end of October in the stunning Villa Contarini, close to Padova (Italy).
The Conference room, called Sala delle Conchiglie, is entirely made with seashells 🐚

Finally announced on the @springernature.com website my new book on #metaphors and their #embodied nature in shaping our #thinking, #feeling, #perception and more.
Very personal note: the book is dedicated to my dear colleague and Riccardo, who died 6 months after we signed the contract ❤️

A bit late in posting these.
Some pics from my talk in London. Very grateful to The College of Psychoanalysts for their kind invitation 🙏

Sunday I will give a talk as invited speaker at the annual conference of The college of psychoanalysts in London.
The event will take place at The Guild of Psychotherapists.
To book the conference ticket, please use the link below.
See you there!

www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-...

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health Launches Successfully with Inaugural Workshop From left to right: network leads Francesca Brencio and Matthew Broome, and research fellow Jodie Russell at the launch event The Birmingham...

A report on our first event in the framework of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health.
📌🗓 Next workshop: November 5th on psychedelics, phenomenology and mental health.
Looking forward to welcoming you in Birmingham!
birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/birm...

Attended yesterday the Birmingham Scholar welcome event, on behalf of our School of Psychology.
Birmingham Scholar is the University of Birmingham’s flagship programme of tailored activities, proudly linked to our Access and Participation work, designed to support students from all backgrounds.

Great experience yesterday at the Away Day 2025 of the Institute for Mental Health!

Thrilled to announce our new website!
Key features:
🔹 Learning platform for online courses
🔹Personal learning hub
🔹Teaching materials and recordings always available
🔹Newsletter
We're keeping our blog active with fresh contents.
We've also update our 📩: info@phenolab.academy
Visit us at --->

Great kick off for the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health! Inspiring day, fruitful conversations and great speakers.
An heartfelt thanks to all the people who presented and attended (in person and remotely) from us!
@matthewbroome.bsky.social @jelliedsours.bsky.social

"Exploring lived experience in mental health", first workshop of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health.
Happening now, at the Studio (Central Birmingham)
@matthewbroome.bsky.social and @jelliedsours.bsky.social delivering the opening remarks

❤️🙏

Don't miss out!
Today's your last chance to register for the @phenolab.bsky.social course in #clinical #phenomenology!

Continuing the introductions of our exciting new network, this week we are highlighting our other fabulous lead @ipazia76.bsky.social (Dr Francesca Brencio). Francesca is is a philosopher interested in the integration of phenomenology and hermeneutics within clinical education and practice.

After the remarkable success of the first two editions of the course in Clinical Phenomenology, we are happy to announce the third one!
Deadline for applications: August 15, 2025
Start date: September 6, 2025

Info at phenolab.blogspot.com/2025/06/cour...

Closing remarks of our Summer School by Dr. Francesca Brencio.
See you in June 2026 for the 3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria!

Our Keynote Speakers for the last day of the 2nd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria: Prof. Giovanni Stanghellini and Dr. Cecilia Maria Esposito