Narrative Practices in Medicine and Therapy: Philosophical Reflections

daniel d. hutto is a professor of philosophical psychology at the University of Wollongong and member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts. He is coauthor of the award-winning Radicalizing Enactivism (MIT, 2013) and its sequel, Evolving Enactivism (MIT, 2017). His other recent books include Folk Psychological Narratives (MIT, 2008) and Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy (Palgrave, 2006). He is editor of Narrative and Understanding Persons (CUP, 2007) and Narrative and Folk Psychology (Imprint Academic, 2009). A special yearbook, Radical Enactivism, focusing on his philosophy of intentionality, phenomenology, and narrative, was published in 2006. He is regularly invited to speak not only at philosophy conferences but at expert meetings of anthropologists, clinical psychiatrists/therapists, educationalists, narratologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists.

nicolle marissa brancazio is pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Wollongong. Her current research focuses on the ways that social norms shape cognition.

jarrah aubourg is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Wollongong, writing a thesis on the role of narrative in thought experiments. His research interests include narrative approaches to medicine and therapy, and the place of narratives in promoting understanding.