Section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy

The interdisciplinary research group “Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy“, led by Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Thomas Fuchs,  explores the underlying structures of subjective experience and their alterations in mental illness, using both theoretical as well as empirical methodologies. Here psychiatrists, philosophers and psychologists work together on common issues such as changes of the self-awareness, corporeality or intersubjectivity due to mental illness.

New publication

Selbst- und Welterleben in der Schizophrenie: Die phänomenologischen Interviews EASE und EAWE

Fuchs, T., de Haan, S., Ludwig, M., Martin, L. (2021)
Selbst- und Welterleben in der Schizophrenie. Die phänomenologischen Interviews EASE und EAWE
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer

New publication

In Defense of the Human Being

Fuch, T. (2021) In Defense of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Interview with Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs in "Melchior" 14/21 (German)

In Defense of the Human Being (in German)

A conversation with philosopher and psychiatrist Thomas Fuchs about mankind's dreams, the humbug of digital immortality and the meaning of corporeality. (Interviewer: Magdalena Hegglin)

Zum Interview

Interview with Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (in German)

How much digitalization can humans tolerate? (Online Talk with Karoline Gil)

Not only as a result of the Corona pandemic do we see enormous progress in artificial intelligence and massive changes in our lifeworld due to digitalization processes. This raises questions about how these processes affect our understanding of human beings and the image of humanity. How much digitalization can humans tolerate?

Zum Video

Prof. Michael Schmidt-Degenhard (1953-2020)

An Obituary by Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (in German)

Interview with Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (German)

Fighting for a new way of thinking/What is missing from modern thought

Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs explains in the video why he does not think of "reductionism" as a sufficient explanatory model of the world and what that has to do with dualism.

Link to video

Podcast-Series „Self-conscious AI“ of the technology foresight project “AI-Consciousness” at the KIT

Without life no consciousness. Conversation with Thomas Fuchs (German)

“Consciousness in the computer is a simulation.”

#01 Ohne Leben kein Bewusstsein

Interview with Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs in “Psychologie Heute“ 10/2019 (German)

Faster than time permits.

"It is never enough. This is what self-perfection has in common with linear time."

Psychologe Heute 10/2019 - Schneller, als die Zeit erlaubt

 

Current Publications (Selection)

Tewes, C., Stanghellini, G. (2020)
Time and Body. Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fuchs, T. (2020)
Verteidigung des Menschen. Grundfragen einer verkörperten Anthropologie
Berlin: Suhrkamp

Fuchs, T. (2020)
Randzonen der Erfahrung. Beiträge zur phänomenologischen Psychopathologie.
Freiburg: Alber.

Fuchs, T., Breyer, T. (Hrsg.) (2020)
Selbst und Selbststörungen
Freiburg: Alber.

Fuchs, T., Iwer, L., Micali, S. (Hrsg.) (2018)
Das überforderte Subjekt. Zeitdiagnosen einer beschleunigten Gesellschaft.
Berlin: Suhrkamp.

Fuchs, T. (2017). Ecology of the Brain. The Phenomenology and Biology of the Embodied Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.