Rosa Ritunnano

Super excited to have been invited to contribute to this incredible event as keynote speaker alongside some of my favourite people including Awais Aftab and Sofia Jeppsson!

Have a look and submit your abstract:

What can philosophy do for psychiatry?

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Theoretical Perspectives on the Minimal and Narrative Self in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Integrative Review The links between the minimal self (our most basic sense of being) and the narrative self (our personal story and identity) in schizophrenia are still unclear. They may work in three ways: the minima...

New exciting collaborative work just published, led by Florestan Delcourt

Theoretical Perspectives on the Minimal and Narrative Self in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Integrative Review

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Blunting concepts: The double-edged effect of popularizing psychotherapy language The increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations gives rise to a worth-exploring tension: while it can enhance mental health literacy and provide individuals with...

Full original article here:

Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs" New research radically shifts how we understand delusions, offering patients and clinicians a better way to understand these impactful experiences.

Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs"

www.iflscience.com/living-in-me...

Thank you to all the brilliant speakers and participants who made our workshop yesterday so rich and truly interdisciplinary ❤️. Let's keep up the good work guys, and hopefully meet again soon!

RESEARCH | Delusions in psychosis are shaped by emotions and language, an important new study from @unibirmingham.bsky.social, @unimelb.bsky.social, @york.ac.uk and Orygen has found – challenging old notions about these experiences.

More details + key findings: bit.ly/4pBBgg8

"To our knowledge, this is the first study using a phenomenologically informed, multi-method approach to situate the investigation of delusions in first-episode psychosis (across different themes and diagnoses) within a life-as-a-whole context."

So appreciated reading this

bsky.app/profile/rrit...

So glad to hear! Thank you!

Yes!!! Experience is not all immediately accessible! Psychiatry often forgets that...

"Part of the analysis focused on uncovering aspects of self-understanding and meaning making that operate outside of the participant's awareness and are hidden behind ambiguous or contradictory expressions, or within figurative expressions, including metaphor and metonymy"

📢 Don't miss our new paper just out in The Lancet Psychiatry Psychiatry today‼️📆

"Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK"

Full Open Access article 👇
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Amazing! Look forward to meeting you 😊

📆📢 Coming up soon

Stanford Medicine
Master Clinician Series 2026

Engaging meaning-making in delusions: the phenomenological toolbox

Presenters: Rosa Ritunnano, MD, PhD and Elizabeth Pienkos, PsyD

stanford.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...

A beautiful winter issue of The Philosopher "Crossing the Floods" is out now with a contribution by myself and my friend and colleague Kathleen Murphy-Hollies on "Engaging Delusions", alongside other wonderful essays. Don't miss it!

www.thephilosopher1923.org/print-issues

Really enjoyed talking about delusions as embodied, affective and relational experience yesterday at one of our IMH lunchtime seminars! Great questions and lots more to work on in the new year!

Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches - Synthese Despite some remarkable accomplishments, enactivist and phenomenological approaches to autistic social difficulties remain highly problematic. Their conceptualization of social disablement as a distur...

📝🧠 I'm thrilled to announce that my paper, "Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches" is now published and open access!!
Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #autism #enactivism

📆 🔊 ❗ Another date for your calendars
⭐ 16th January 2026 - 4h workshop ⭐
"Engaging meaning-making in delusions: the phenomenological toolbox"
Presented by myself & Dr. Elizabeth Pienkos

med.stanford.edu/inspire-trai...

📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore

Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt

SAVE THE DATE 📅 Wed 10 December 1-2

IMH Lunchtime seminar:
Delusion as embodied, affective and relational experience

Online and in person

bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Read the report here bci-hub.org/documents/ep...

And find out more about the Agency project here mcpin.org/project/agen... and Agency-in-Practice mcpin.org/project/agen...

@ipanalysis.bsky.social @lisabortolotti.com @matthewbroome.bsky.social @rachelred94.bsky.social @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social

Thank you Sohee!!

Next week in Cagliari, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (@kmurphyhollies.bsky.social) and I will represent #projectEPIC at this awesome event, organised by Francesca Ervas: prin.unica.it/meimi/prin-p...
Looking forward to talking about expertise and #epistemicinjustice #philsky #philpsy

Paper featuring a case study, open access

Delighted that Rosa Ritunnano passed her viva without corrections! Her PhD on delusions is a marvel of interdisciplinary research. My favourite paper by Rosa so far is the one on Harry, the happiest man in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsky #philpsy #womeninphilosophy

Thank you Lisa!!

I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social)

To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...

AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis at All A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay.

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking

www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

#philsky #EpistemicInjustice #YouthMentalHealth #edusky #projectEPIC

Heidegger on Being Affected Cambridge Core - Twentieth-Century Philosophy - Heidegger on Being Affected

www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

ASPP 2025 Melbourne Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract

Come join this exciting community of researchers

Nov 24-25 - Register now!

#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky

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'“The humanities are where people learn to think critically, to analyse systems, to question authority,” @desfitzgerald.bsky.social says. “What happens if that disappears? What happens if you can simulate critical thinking without actually engaging in it?”'