Rosa Ritunnano

PhD researcher, University of Birmingham

is a consultant psychiatrist and a PhD researcher at the Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham, and at Orygen Youth Health at the University of Melbourne. She was awarded the 2021 Wolfe Mays Essay Prize for her essay ‘Overcoming Hermeneutical Injustice in Mental Health: A Role for Critical Phenomenology’. She lives in Birmingham, UK.

Written by Rosa Ritunnano

A painting of a figure standing near a bed with a patterned red and cream wall in the background.

Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis

How phenomenological tools can help foster a relationship of true listening between clinicians and people with psychosis

by Rosa Ritunnano & Kasim Qureshi