Lucienne Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4460190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucienne Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4929-5300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The epistemic harms of empathy in phenomenological psychopathology
Jaspers identifies empathic understanding as an essential tool for grasping not the mere psychic content of the condition at hand, but the lived experience of the patient. This method then serves as the basis for the phenomenological investigation into the psychiatric condition known as ‘Phenomenological Psychopathology’. In recent years, scholars in the field of phenomenological psychopathology have attempted to refine the concept of empathic un…
Rethinking Recognition
The future of phenomenological psychopathology
The ways in which we attempt to make sense of psychiatric illness have been slow to progress. Over the last several decades, clinicians and researchers have inherited one-size-fits-all diagnostic f
Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice
This paper offers an overview of the philosophical work on epistemic injustices as it relates to psychiatry. After describing the development of epistemic injustice studies, we survey the existing literature on its application to psychiatry. We describe how the concept of epistemic injustice has been taken up into a range of debates in philosophy of psychiatry, including the nature of psychiatric conditions, psychiatric practices and research, an…
A Phenomenological Approach to Expectancy Violation in Social Anxiety Disorder
Expectancy refers to what an individual anticipates will happen in a given situation. Usually, one forms expectations for social interactions by drawing on social norms and past interactions or observations of others. The expectations of those with a social anxiety disorder, however, can be off-kilter, with social expectations that are unrealistically negative. Expectancy violation theory (EVT) suggests that disrupting the negative expectations o…
Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare
Within the last decade, epistemic injustice has been a valuable framework for those working on exposing oppressive practices within the healthcare system. As this work has evolved, new terminology has been added to the epistemic injustice literature to bring to light previously obscured epistemic harms in healthcare practices. This paper aims to explore an important concept that has not received the attention it deserves: epistemic isolation. By …
‘The Hermeneutic Problem of Psychiatry’ and the Co-Production of Meaning in Psychiatric Healthcare
‘The co-production of meaning’ is a phrase that has become entrenched in the field of public mental health, adopted almost as a slogan within the literature. But what does it actually mean? Current definitions gesture toward the very broad idea that co-production involves a collaboration between ‘service users’ and healthcare professionals, each contributing their knowledge to better understand and treat mental health problems. Yet, terms such as…
Hermeneutical injustice and unworlding in Psychopathology
The rich literature in phenomenological psychopathology regards the communicative difficulties accompanying psychiatric illness as a product of 'unworlding': the experience of a drastic change in one's habitual field of experience. This paper argues that the relationship between speech expression and unworlding in psychiatric illness is more complex than previously assumed. Not only does unworlding cause a breakdown in speech expression, but a br…
Epistemic Injustice in Late-Stage Dementia
The literature on epistemic injustice has thus far confined the concept of testimonial injustice to speech expressions such as inquiring, discussing, deliberating, and, above all, telling. I propose that it is time to broaden the horizons of testimonial injustice to include a wider range of expressions. Controversially, the form of communication I have in mind is non-verbal expression. Non-verbal expression is a vital, though often overlooked, fo…
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‘The Hermeneutic Problem of Psychiatry’ and the Co-Production of Meaning in Psychiatric Healthcare
‘The co-production of meaning’ is a phrase that has become entrenched in the field of public mental health, adopted almost as a slogan within the literature. But what does it actually mean? Current definitions gesture toward the very broad idea that co-production involves a collaboration between ‘service users’ and healthcare professionals, each contributing their knowledge to better understand and treat mental health problems. Yet, terms such as…
Hermeneutical injustice and unworlding in Psychopathology
The rich literature in phenomenological psychopathology regards the communicative difficulties accompanying psychiatric illness as a product of 'unworlding': the experience of a drastic change in one's habitual field of experience. This paper argues that the relationship between speech expression and unworlding in psychiatric illness is more complex than previously assumed. Not only does unworlding cause a breakdown in speech expression, but a br…
Epistemic Injustice in Late-Stage Dementia
The literature on epistemic injustice has thus far confined the concept of testimonial injustice to speech expressions such as inquiring, discussing, deliberating, and, above all, telling. I propose that it is time to broaden the horizons of testimonial injustice to include a wider range of expressions. Controversially, the form of communication I have in mind is non-verbal expression. Non-verbal expression is a vital, though often overlooked, fo…
Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare
Within the last decade, epistemic injustice has been a valuable framework for those working on exposing oppressive practices within the healthcare system. As this work has evolved, new terminology has been added to the epistemic injustice literature to bring to light previously obscured epistemic harms in healthcare practices. This paper aims to explore an important concept that has not received the attention it deserves: epistemic isolation. By …
The future of phenomenological psychopathology
The ways in which we attempt to make sense of psychiatric illness have been slow to progress. Over the last several decades, clinicians and researchers have inherited one-size-fits-all diagnostic f
Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice
This paper offers an overview of the philosophical work on epistemic injustices as it relates to psychiatry. After describing the development of epistemic injustice studies, we survey the existing literature on its application to psychiatry. We describe how the concept of epistemic injustice has been taken up into a range of debates in philosophy of psychiatry, including the nature of psychiatric conditions, psychiatric practices and research, an…
A Phenomenological Approach to Expectancy Violation in Social Anxiety Disorder
Expectancy refers to what an individual anticipates will happen in a given situation. Usually, one forms expectations for social interactions by drawing on social norms and past interactions or observations of others. The expectations of those with a social anxiety disorder, however, can be off-kilter, with social expectations that are unrealistically negative. Expectancy violation theory (EVT) suggests that disrupting the negative expectations o…
The epistemic harms of empathy in phenomenological psychopathology
Jaspers identifies empathic understanding as an essential tool for grasping not the mere psychic content of the condition at hand, but the lived experience of the patient. This method then serves as the basis for the phenomenological investigation into the psychiatric condition known as ‘Phenomenological Psychopathology’. In recent years, scholars in the field of phenomenological psychopathology have attempted to refine the concept of empathic un…
Rethinking Recognition
Epistemology (7 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychopathology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Injustice (3 works)