Phenomenological Empathy and the Professional Role in Recovery-Oriented Practice

An edited collection on how mental illness reshapes lived experience, with chapters on autism, depression and loneliness, body dysmorphia, schizophrenia and the experience of space and time, plus a chapter on empathy in psychotherapy.

Elizabeth Pienkos, Jasper Feyaerts, Rosa Ritunnano, Jérôme Englebert and Louis Sass

Shows how phenomenological psychologists can read interview data as both description and interpretation, drawing on Husserl's intentionality and Ricoeur's narrative identity.

Marc H. Applebaum

Examines how phenomenology can ground empirical research in psychiatry and psychology, and which methodological questions remain open when studying patients' experience.

Leonor Irarrázaval

A concise case for using phenomenological psychopathology in psychiatric treatment, not only in diagnosis.

Guilherme Messas, Melissa Tamelini, Milena Mancini and Giovanni Stanghellini

Explores how Husserl's and Heidegger's ideas of intersubjectivity connect with psychotherapy and the empathic understanding of the patient.

Archana Barua and Minakshi Das