This event is free to attend and open to all; there is no need to register.
Speaker
Dr Anthony Fernandez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Assistant Professor, Kent State University, Department of Philosophy University of Oxford
Chair
Dr Roxana Baiasu, Tutorial Fellow, Stanford University Centre in Oxford; Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford
The experience of depression is notoriously difficult to describe. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) provides no definition of “depressed mood,” despite including it as a core symptom of major depressive disorder. This event explores how a turn to phenomenology—a philosophical study of human experience and existence—can help to unpack the concept of depressed mood. Dr Fernandez argues that there are at least two distinct experiential disturbances that fall under the label of depressed mood. By distinguishing these disturbances, phenomenological analyses provide evidence in favour of reclassifying depressive disorders, which can potentially enhance psychiatry’s ability to effectively target therapeutic interventions.
Conveners: Dr Roxana Baiasu and Professor Stephen Mulhall
For more information, contact: roxana.baiasu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
The event is organised by the Oxford Forum in association with
the Stanford University Centre in Oxford
