PROGRAMME
Programme – INPP 2026
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Thursday October 8th
09:00 – 10:00
Registration and Welcome
10:00 – 10:30
Opening Lecture
Derek Strijbos & Werdie van Staden
10:30 – 12:00
Keynotes 1 & 2
Awais Aftab
Sofia Jeppsson
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch — Foyer
13:00 – 14:30
Parallel Sessions – Round 1
Relational and embodied approaches to psychiatry – Lindenberg
The Enacted Role: Integrating Psychodrama, Phenomenology and Enactivism – Serbia
#144 | Gerrit Glas
Prospects and limits of the enactive approach to psychiatric practice – The Netherlands
#25 | Manfred Fede
Revising the Boundaries of the Unconscious. A Phenomenological (Re-)Conceptualization of the Unconscious in the Tension between Depth and Height Psychology – Austria
Philosophical foundations of psychiatric diagnosis – Karolingen
“This patient is too complex, but the books taught us to reduce complexity” – qualitative investigation of how causality is being modelled in mental health professional education – The Netherlands
#30 | Themistoklis Pnatazakos, Awais Aftab
Clinical Utility as Maker of Evidence-Based Diagnosis in Psychiatry – Greece
#32 | Hannes Wendler
Re-evaluating Evaluativism in Nosology. Prospects of Axiology for Psychopathology – Germany
#105 | Charlotte Skye
Why the Evidence-Resistance Criterion Fails as a Scientific Marker of Delusion – United Kingdom
Emerging issues in philosophy and psychiatry – Valkhof
Debunking Psychedelic Beliefs – Austria
#45 | René Baston
Suicide Risk: Against Prediction, Toward Normic Assessment – Germany
#95 | Maximiliano Zeller
Inherited Assumptions: A Philosophical Audit of the Psychiatric Presuppositions Embedded in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Research – Argentina
Epistemological issues in mental health care practice – Red
INNP 2026 abstract: Psychiatric self-diagnosis and identity: Diagnosing the debate – The Netherlands
#102 | Manja Eijzenbach
From “Crazy” to Traumatized: Diagnosis, Identity, and Epistemic Justice in Mental Health Care – The Netherlands
#51 | Anna Walsweer
Feeling Alien: Postpartum Depression and Loss of Identity – The Netherlands
#103 | Miguel Núñez de Prado Gordillo, Víctor Fernández Castro
Whack-a-mole! Resisting impostor concepts in mental health self-interpretation – Spain
Ethical issues in clinical care – Yellow
Unfree Care: Listening to Experiences of Coercion During Anorexia Nervosa Treatment – The Netherlands
#37 | Lieke Jorna, Steven Berendsen
The despair of involuntary care – The Netherlands
#41 | D. Brandenburg
How to Blame Less but Excuse Not: A Relational Approach – The Netherlands
#42 | Sophie Ingle
Support and Expertise-by-Experience: On the Necessity of an Ethical Support Framework for Experts-by-Experience in the Mental Healthcare Sector – The Netherlands
Mental illness and society – Blue
Mindshaping & Autistic Sexual Experience – The Netherlands
#64 | Phebe Kraanen
Resistance is the way to prevent going mad – The Netherlands
#93 | Renata Prati
The uses of biology in public mental health discussions – Argentina
#108 | Aditi Tyagi
Ethical Mental Health Care beyond Institutional Spaces – India
Philosophy of science in psychiatry – Marikenzaal
Conceptualising Belonging in Psychiatric Spiritual Care: A Scoping Review – The Netherlands
#63 | Neil Mac Dhonnagáin
Understanding youth agency in context – a critical realist approach to youth mental health research – Ireland
#99 | Femke Truijens
“I feel 4 out of 5 depressed”? Why meaningful measurement of mental health requires validity-in-action – The Netherlands
14:30 – 15:00
Tea Break
15:00 – 16:00
Parallel Sessions – Round 2
Philosophical training for mental health practitioners – Lindenberg
What Counts as Knowledge in Mental Health Care? Shaping Methodological Stances In a Live ‘Reflexivity Lab’ – The Netherlands
Philosophical foundations of psychiatric diagnosis – Karolingen
The philosophy of personality Disorders – The Netherlands
#111 | Willians Sena
The defective gears of civility: On the purposes of personality – Brazil
Epistemological issues in mental health care practice – Valkhof
Case studies in epistemic injustice: people living with dementia and people experiencing paranoia – Italy
Mental illness and society – Red
Suicide on Screen: Shifting Portrayals of Suicide and Suicidality on Dutch Television, ca. 1950–2000 – The Netherlands
#76 | Julian Kiverstein, Damiaan Denys
The paradox of prosperity – The NetherlandsPhilosophical training for mental health practitioners – Yellow
Healthcare Humanities: A master’s program for deepening understanding of healthcare’s complexity – The NetherlandsEthical issues in clinical care – Blue
The Wild Duck dilemma: ethical considerations and repercussions of psychiatric diagnosis – Denmark
#109 | Anke Snoek
Parental addiction: Two ethical frameworks to assess whether and how intervention is appropriate – The Netherlands
#135 | Kelso Cratsley, Ulrich Koch
Psychotherapy Ethics and the Limits of Mechanistic ExplanationRelational and embodied approaches to psychiatry – Marikenzaal
The Flesh of the Body Image: A Phenomenological Approach to Anorexia Nervosa – The Netherlands
#47 | Grace Huxter
The Phenomenology of Social Anxiety: On Bodily and Social Doubt – United Kingdom
#155 | Maarten van Westen
Mentalizing in Clinical Practice: An Embodied and Enactive Reconceptualization – The Netherlands
16:00 – 16:30
Tea Break
16:30 – 18:00
Parallel Sessions – Round 3
Relational and embodied approaches to psychiatry – Lindenberg
Alienation in post-traumatic experience – The Netherlands
#101 | Charlotte de Lange
“Shame Must Change Sides”: Embodied Shame and Structural Injustice after Sexual Trauma – The Netherlands
Philosophical foundations of psychiatric diagnosis – Karolingen
The meaning of ‘acceptance’ of a psychiatric diagnosis – The Netherlands
#71 | Léon de Bruin
Looping effects, neurodiversity and self-diagnosis – The Netherlands
#74 | Anke Wiersma, Kennan van Gelder
What psychiatrists might be missing in treatment resistent disorders: A quest for meaning – The Netherlands
#65 | Sabine Færge
The Mimetic Loop – Denmark
Emerging issues in philosophy and psychiatry – Valkhof
When Machines Decode the Mind: Neural Decoding as a Challenge to Pluralist and Embodied Psychiatry – Denmark
#85 | Samy Kozlowitz (1), Charlotte Geindre (2)
What is mental pain and is it a pain? Results from a metasynthesis of qualitative studies and a systematic review of philosophical work – (1) Belgium; (2) France
#106 | Daniël Pieter (Daan) Doeleman
Tracking, disruption of stress-concepts and epistemic categories in mental health – The Netherlands
#118 | Julia R.M. van Egmond, Anke I. Liefbroer, Arjan W. Braam
Meaning-oriented care in psychiatry: a scoping review – The Netherlands
Epistemological issues in mental health care practice – Red
In praise of ignorance – Belgium
#114 | Nina de Boer
Experiencing complexity: Reconceptualizing experiential knowledge in mental health care – The Netherlands
#131 | Linde van Schuppen
Being in a position to tell: experiential knowledge in narratives – The Netherlands
#39 | Werdie van Staden
Recognising a necessary constitutive condition of epistemology that matters practically in mental health – South Africa
Ethical issues in clinical care – Yellow
Between Autonomy and Beneficence: Ethical Dilemmas of DNR Orders by Patients with Suicidal Ideations – The Netherlands
#107 | Mai Ness
Value Neutrality and Unwise Decisions: On ‘Problem Cases’ and Capacity Assessments in Psychiatry – United Kingdom
#152 | Anne-Fleur van der Meer, Jelle van Gurp
Dysregulation surrounded: An Empirical-Ethical Study of Intensive Network Crisis Care in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry” – The Netherlands
#153 | Jelle van Gurp, Anne Koekkoek, Anne-Fleur van der Meer
RESCAPE: Reconstructing Social Imaginaries that Shape Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Intensive carE – The Netherlands
Mental illness and society – Blue
From “Mental Health” to Universal Care: A sociohistorical and conceptual clearing towards abolitionist futures – Netherlands/Spain
#77 | Kasper Møller Nielsen
The sociocultural construction of reality and psychosis – Denmark
#90 | E. Goedendorp, S. Berendsen, B. Bovendeerd, D. Donkers, D. Strijbos
“I feel like people do not really understand me…”: A Phenomenological Study of How People With Autism Experience Conversations About Suicidality – The Netherlands
Philosophy of science in psychiatry – Marikenzaal
The non-hereditarian perspective on the genetics of psychiatric disorder: implications for descriptive psychopathology – USA
#149 | Felix Weibezahl
A Novel Approach to Experimental Philosophy of Psychiatry: Insights from a Study of Existential Conflict in Psychotherapy with Older Adults – Germany
20:00 – 24:00
Evening Conference Party
Friday October 9th
08:30 – 09:00
Registration and Welcome
09:00 – 10:30
Keynotes 3 & 4
Rosa Ritunnano
Anna Bergqvist
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Parallel Sessions – Round 4
Lowlands – inspirational examples NL – Lindenberg
Philosophical foundations of psychiatric diagnosis – Karolingen
Object fragmentation and loss of depth in psychosis: a phenomenological approach – Lithuania
#116 | Peter Schönknecht
Transcendental-philosophical foundations of a concept of delusion – Germany
#124 | Anna Golova
Making sense of self-illness ambiguity – United Kingdom
#129 | Christopher M Hauwert, Nico JM van Beveren
Reification and psychiatric practice: An exercise in virtuosity – The Netherlands
Emerging issues in philosophy and psychiatry – Valkhof
Generation App: examining epistemic and ethical issues in digital mental health technologies – The Netherlands
#163 | Eva Rädler-Bohn
Could Averse Effects of AI-Chatbots for Mental Health Be Explained in Terms of Inadequate “Resonance”? – Germany
Relational and embodied approaches to psychiatry – Red
Borrowed Selves, Possible Futures: Literature as Enactive Scaffold in Depression – Serbia
#126 | Sarah Bloem
Masking, Camouflaging, Passing: A Critical Phenomenological Analysis of Autistic Self-Presentation – Sweden
#33 | Janko Nešić
Habitual familiarity in autism – Serbia
#69 | Stéphanie Dijkstra, Auke Jelsma, Arjen Noordhof, Lindy-Lou Boyette, Lieuwe de Haan
Exploring the Impact of Antipsychotic Treatment on Anomalous Self-Experience – The Netherlands
Philosophical training for mental health practitioners – Yellow
Attitudes Towards Conceptual and Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry and Psychiatric Education: A Survey of US and UK Trainees – United Kingdom
#31 | Alexandra Parvan
Mental health as “queered” coherence: A metaphysical toolkit for disordering psychology – Romania
#50 | Helene Speyer
Introducing a new format: Why Psychiatry Needs Philosophical Literacy – Denmark
#150 | Eugenia Kulakova, Stefan Rinner, Lars Dänzer
Scorekeeping, Common Ground, and the Therapeutic Conversation: A Pragmatic Bridge Between Philosophy of Language and Psychotherapy – Germany
Other – Blue
Revisiting the lost considerations of the prolonged grief disorder debate – Denmark
#94 | Dominic Murphy
Reimagining the Addictive Trajectory – Australia
#86 | Georgina Brighouse, Reshanne Reeder
Aphantasia and the impact on mental Healthcare – United Kingdom
#123 | Almuth-Maria Schmidt
Eccentric Positionality and the Mitwelt: Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology as a Framework for Humanising Mental Health Care – Scotland, UK
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Parallel Sessions – Round 5
Relational and embodied approaches to psychiatry – Lindenberg
“Everything is fine” – Unpacking the role and dimensions of psychological resilience in high-functioning depression – Germany
#117 | G.B. (Gerben) van de Kraats
Naturalizing phenomenology: Implications for translational research in mental health – The Netherlands
#168 | Marianne D. Broeker
Instability of indicator traces model as a way of quantifying a disorganised field of consciousness in psychosis: linking phenomenology and psychophysics – United Kingdom
#70 | Anna Sterna, Emma Maciejewska, Laura Curti, Marcin Moskalewicz
Exploring Clinicians’ Lived Experience in Borderline Encounters: A Phenomenological Contribution to Intuitive Diagnosis – Poland
Philosophical foundations of psychiatric diagnosis – Karolingen
A shift from internalism to externalism in clinical explanations of mental disorders – Poland
#156 | Maryam Khan
Diagnostic Genealogy and the Kraepelinian Shadow: Epistemological Origins of the Autism-Catatonia Interface – USA
#159 | Merlijn Olthof
Reification of the general psychopathology factor draws attention away from environmental causes of psychopathology – The Netherlands
Neurophilosophy – Valkhof
Searching for neural biomarkers in psychiatry: not a descriptive but a constitutive practice – The Netherlands
#92 | WJC Verbeeck
Philosophy of the synaps – The Netherlands
#49 | Filip Stawski & Mateusz Tofilski
Is Psychosis a Matter of Degree? A Predictive Processing Perspective – Poland
Epistemological issues in mental health care practice – Red
Psychoeducation: the role of knowledge transfer at the intersection of empirical science, mental health care and human interaction – The Netherlands
#138 | Anna Klimowicz
Epistemic Authority in an Age of Self-Diagnosis – USA
#140 | Gemma Lucy Smart
Epistemic Counter-Narratives and Explanatory Pluralism in Consumer Mental Health Activism – Australia
#169 | Fabian Hundertmark
In Defense of Realism about Self–Illness Ambiguity – Spain
Other – Yellow
Searching a way with mental troubles: narrative, uncertainty, and moral agency in a context of plurality – The Netherlands
#166 | Laura Kipp, Bernard Pachoud
The phenomenology of belonging to the world. Implications for psychiatry and mental health care – France
#148 | Arnaud Plagnol
Overwhelming: From pathological overload to the expansion of the lived world – France
Other – Blue
Keeping it rational: Persons and rationality in philosophy of psychiatry – Australia
#171 | Clara Humpston
philosophical issues related to hallucinations in psychosis – United Kingdom
#172 | Pawel Zagożdżon
Bridging Epidemiology and the Philosophy of Psychiatry: Toward an Empirical Epistemology of Harmful Dysfunction – Poland
15:00 – 15:30
Tea Break
15:30 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00
Closing Session
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