Experience and Knowledge in Psychiatry

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 1 pm - 5 pm

As part of the research project Who knows what in mental health care?, this workshop will address the issue of knowledge in psychiatry from a phenomenological perspective. Several experts present their ideas and research concerning the relation between lived experience and knowledge.

Preliminary programme

  • prof. Sanneke de Haan (Utrecht University, ErasmusMC) - Negotiating Sense-makings in Psychiatry
  • prof. Jasper Feyaerts (Ghent University) - Understanding Lived Experience: Relative and Absolute Limits of Phenomenological Empathy
  • prof. Matthew Ratcliffe (University of York) - First-Person Experience, Self-Understanding, and the Role of Phenomenology  in Psychiatry

Online participation

The workshop will physically take place at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) but can also be attended online. During the Q&A/discussion, priority will be given to in-person attendees. Please indicate online or in-person attendance when registering.

Funding

This event is part of the interdisciplinary research projects Who knows what? Experiential knowledge in mental health care and Experiencing Complexity: Reconceptualizing experiential knowledge in mental health care, both of which are funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO, grant number 406.23.FHR.006).

When
Wednesday 28 January 2026, 1 pm - 5 pm
Speakers
Prof. Matthew Ratcliffe (University of York) , Prof. Jasper Feyaerts (Ghent University) , Prof. Sanneke de Haan (Utrecht University)
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