The Therapeutic Interview in Mental Health: A Values-Based and Person-Centered Approach

About Giovanni StanghelliniMilena Mancini

Giovanni Stanghellini M.D. is Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa Psychiatrist and Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at the Università degli Studi 'G. d'Annunzio' Chieti-Pescara Italy and Profesor Adjuncto at the Universidad Diego Portales Chile. He has written extensively on the philosophical foundations of psychopathology especially from a phenomenological and anthropological viewpoint. He is co-editor of the Oxford University Press series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry. He chairs the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on the Humanities the Association of European Psychiatrists (EPA) Section on Philosophy and Psychiatry the Scuola di Psicoterapia Fenomenologico-Dinamica Florence and co-chairs the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry. Among his books: Nature and Narrative (co-edited 2003) Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The Psychopathology of Common Sense (2004) Emotions and Personhood (with R. Rosfort 2013) One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology (co-edited 2013) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (co-edited 2013) and Lost in Dialogue: Anthropology Psychopathology and Care (2016). Milena Mancini focuses on the identification of phenomenological phenotypes (pheno-phenotypes) with a particular focus on abnormal bodily experiences with a view to integrating psychopathology philosophy and neurosciences and the transformation of these experiences that is produced by mental disorders in particular in schizophrenia melancholia and eating disorders. Mancini also deals with what are values and why they matter in clinical practice. She previously worked in an international research team in Chile on the validation of a scale for the assessment of abnormal interpersonal experiences in people affected by schizophrenia. She has several publications in top-level international journals including Schizophrenia Bulletin and Comprehensive Psychiatry. She also translated from German to Italian the essay by Karl Jaspers 'Eifersuchtwahn' published by Raffaelo Cortina (2015) and the essay by Ernst Kretschmer 'Körperbau und Charakter' which is being considered for publication.