Another reminder that the registration for this in-person event closes in less than a week! The full schedule of talks can be found here: padlet.com/juliekane3/p...

Conference Programme!!!

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Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨Registration is now open✨ for our joint conference "Relationships and Mental Health" on May 12th 2026, in person at The Exchange, Birmingham: shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-... Registration closes May 5th!

Registration closes in just under 2 weeks - please do consider coming if you are interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the topic of mental health and social relationships!

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨Registration is now open✨ for our joint conference "Relationships and Mental Health" on May 12th 2026, in person at The Exchange, Birmingham: shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-... Registration closes May 5th!

As our Network comes to a close, we're tying up loose ends ✨in style✨ with a very swanky closing event on May 7th 2026! Please join us for a series of talks by Network members and participate in helping forge the future of the Network: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2026/04/netw...

Network Closing Conference, May 7th, Birmingham

On May 7 2026,  The Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health will be hosting a closing event, in person only at Hogarths Hotel...

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✨Registration is now open✨ for our joint conference "Relationships and Mental Health" on May 12th 2026, in person at The Exchange, Birmingham: shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-... Registration closes May 5th!

Just a reminder that the deadline for our CFP is this Friday (March 20th)!

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣CFP: "Relationships and Mental Health", Birmingham, May 12th 2026 We are excited to announce a collaboration with our lovely colleagues in the Phenomenology of Health and Relationships (PHaR) group at Aston University on a one-day conference along the theme: Relationships and Mental Health 🧵1/4

Please see the webpage below for the final schedule. Just a reminder that registration closes midday on Friday the 13th of March!

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📅Save the date! Our next Network seminar will be on "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", March 20th 2026, Hybrid This is a collaboration with @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social and #ProjectEPIC Find more info and registration here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...

There is still time to register for online attendance at our upcoming event! Please follow the link below. Note: the registration form will close at midday on March 13th.

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📅Save the date! Our next Network seminar will be on "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", March 20th 2026, Hybrid This is a collaboration with @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social and #ProjectEPIC Find more info and registration here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...

EVENT: Hearing voices, suicidality, and 'AI psychosis' A @uobphenomenal.bsky.social seminar drawing on perspectives from philosophy, mental health research, psychology, and lived experience. Friday 20 March, 9am - 4.30pm UK time, online and in person. #HearingVoices #MentalHealthResearch

📣CFP: "Relationships and Mental Health", Birmingham, May 12th 2026 We are excited to announce a collaboration with our lovely colleagues in the Phenomenology of Health and Relationships (PHaR) group at Aston University on a one-day conference along the theme: Relationships and Mental Health 🧵1/4

Finally out! TLDR: People don't feel shit cause they believe wild conspiracy theories, they believe CTs cause they feel shit. CT beliefs are often confabulations explaining their existential predicament. I drew on LOTS empirical stuff to try & make this defeasible: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are Conspiracy Theorists Confabulating? - Review of Philosophy and Psychology

In this paper, I outline the mechanisms of confabulation and how these mechanisms facilitate not only the maintenance of belief in conspiracy theories, but also their initial adoption. I argue by infe...

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Spaces for this event are filling up so this is just a reminder that if you would like to come to this event in person, please do register early! You can also register for online attendance and to receive recordings of the events with the same link below:

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📅Save the date! Our next Network seminar will be on "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", March 20th 2026, Hybrid This is a collaboration with @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social and #ProjectEPIC Find more info and registration here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Following along with this today! Interesting discussion of metaphor and narrative as 'sensemaking tools' re: unshared beliefs. Reinforces for me the importance of safe, non-judgmental spaces where people can speak about their beliefs and experiences, like a Hearing Voices group -Sarah, HV Team

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣Announcing our third seminar in the series, titled "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health"! Please join us for a wonderful day discussing language, affect and experience! See schedule and registration details here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...

Excited to speak at this! 🤓

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📅Save the date! Our next Network seminar will be on "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", March 20th 2026, Hybrid This is a collaboration with @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social and #ProjectEPIC Find more info and registration here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...

📅Save the date! Our next Network seminar will be on "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", March 20th 2026, Hybrid This is a collaboration with @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social and #ProjectEPIC Find more info and registration here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...

Network Seminar: "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", 20th March, Birmingham and Online

Location In person: Assembly Room, The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2DR. Online: Teams meeting. Date and time 20th March 202...

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We are now out of in-person places at our workshop, but there's always plenty of room online! Please sign up below to receive the link before the event. If you are still keen to come in person, you can also sign up to the wait list and we will contact you if there is space.

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣Announcing our third seminar in the series, titled "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health"! Please join us for a wonderful day discussing language, affect and experience! See schedule and registration details here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...

The event will be taking place on Jan 14, 9.30-16.30, at The Studio in central Birmingham and online. Confirmed speakers include Prof. Ray Gibbs, Prof. Francesca Ervas, Dr Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, and Dr Francesca Brencio. In-person places are limited so please do register.

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣Announcing our third seminar in the series, titled "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health"! Please join us for a wonderful day discussing language, affect and experience! See schedule and registration details here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...

📣Announcing our third seminar in the series, titled "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health"! Please join us for a wonderful day discussing language, affect and experience! See schedule and registration details here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...

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...

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Great day with rich discussions. The talks all went so well together. #psychedelics #phenomenology #mentalhealth @uobphenomenal.bsky.social

We had an absolutely fantastic seminar last Wednesday 🤩 We talked about stigma, oceanic feelings, predictive processing, the importance of community and more!

PSYCHLES@psychles.bsky.social · 9mo ago

And we're off to the races. Great lineup for today's @uobphenomenal.bsky.social seminar. Joined by speakers from Imperial, Exeter, Amsterdam, & Birmingham. #psychedelics #interdisciplinary #phenomenology #mentalhealth

This was great! Ageing is one of those topics where thinking about it even just a little bit and sharing experiences with others goes a long way to making us way more lucid about it. The default usually is to never think about it unless forced! This book club feels safe & sparks interesting convos.

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Interested in feminist approaches to age and mental health? Join our new reading group starting October 28th where we will be discussing part 2 of Simone de Beauvoir's "Old Age". Sign up and and see the schedule here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/laun...

Our schedule for our next network seminar has now been finalised! Check out our website for the full list of awesome talks: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/10/netw... P.S. there's still time to register!

Network Seminar: "Psychedelics, Phenomenology, & Mental Health", November 5th 2025, Birmingham and Online

The second seminar in the series organised by the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health will be held on 5 November 2025, 9....

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Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📣Announcing our Psychedelics, Phenomenology, & Mental Health seminar, 5.11.25, Birmingham and Online Drawing on phenomenological perspectives, the workshop will bring together interdisciplinary scholars to discuss the potential of psychedelic experiences for addressing mental health challenges.

Coming soon: Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE). Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by #PPIE experts. 📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw

Don’t forget to sign up to our new reading group! We’ll be meeting in two weeks to discuss the beginning of section 5: “The Discovery and Assumption of Old Age: The Body’s Experience” (pp.314-345 of the 1985 Penguin Modern Classics edition)

Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health@uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Interested in feminist approaches to age and mental health? Join our new reading group starting October 28th where we will be discussing part 2 of Simone de Beauvoir's "Old Age". Sign up and and see the schedule here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/laun...

This week on Behind the Stigma Podcast🎙️, I spoke to @isernmas.bsky.social on their excellent paper 'Unmasking therapy speak' - what they describe as a superficial use of psychotherapy language. We spoke about what that means & its wider impact. Listen here:🤩 www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...

Carme Isern-Mas@isernmas.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New publication! ✨ Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints? @almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong. 🔓Link in reply

Monthly Phenomenology, 6th Season (2025–2026) - Online Francesca Forlè - Embodied Affectivity. A Phenomenological Account of the Connection between Affective Phenomena and Bodily Expressions 24 October 2025 From the Network for Phenomenological Research www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/10/09/m...

📣Announcing our Psychedelics, Phenomenology, & Mental Health seminar, 5.11.25, Birmingham and Online Drawing on phenomenological perspectives, the workshop will bring together interdisciplinary scholars to discuss the potential of psychedelic experiences for addressing mental health challenges.

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Alt: Dwight and Michael Scott from the US Office celebrate.

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Christina Wilkins@stinaface.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The next event for the MHHRN is on the 30th Oct at 4pm -ONLINE - Television and Mental Health featuring @veronicaheney.bsky.social and @rob-lawson.bsky.social talking - DM us for the Zoom link! We're looking forward to it.

New special issue out on psychedelic treatments! Guest editor Elly Vintiadis, who also authored the introduction: doi.org/10.1080/0951... Free access! Follow this thread to know more about the other contributions #vol38issue7 #psychedelics #philsky #philpsy 1/14

The promises and perils of the psychedelic turn in psychiatry

Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 38, No. 7, 2025)

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Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci