автор: Michael A. Schwartz

Aaron L. Mishara, Ph D, Psy D is a retired Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Chicago School where he researched altered states of consciousness, time perception, memory systems and psychosis, and the psychology of art and narrative. In addition, Dr. Mishara studied symptoms of psychiatric disorders and cognition at Yale School of Medicine. He currently examines the contribution of phenomenology and automatic processing in relation to neurobiological and neurocomputational models in psychiatry. Prior to the above, Dr. Mishara received two Fulbright-Hays grants to examine phenomenological-descriptive approaches in Germany, working with leading phenomenologists including Wolfgang Blankenburg and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Returning stateside, he studied time perception in persons with schizophrenia at Daniel Weinberger’s lab at NIMH and participated in Mark Hallett’s (NINDS/NIH) study of functional neurological disorder. Dr. Mishara has lectured around the world and has published over 100 publications, including “Kafka, paranoic doubles and the brain”, which has been downloaded over 33, 000 times since its initial publication in 2010.   Marcin Moskalewicz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin and Poznan University of Medical Sciences as well as Team Leader at IDEAS NCBR in Warsaw (all in Poland). He is convener of the Phenomenology and Mental Health Network, The Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. Moskalewicz was Marie Curie Fellow at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and University of Oxford, EURIAS Fellow at Collegium Helveticum in Zurich, Fulbright Scholar at Texas A&M, and Humboldt Fellow at Heidelberg University.   Michael Alan Schwartz, MD is retired as Joint Professor of Psychiatry and Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Medicine. A Board-Certified Psychiatrist, he is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the journal Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine. Presently Dr. Schwartz continues practicing psychiatry as well as writing and editing psychiatric books and articles. His work focuses on advancing pluralistic, person and people-centered approaches to psychiatric assessment, care and treatment.   Alexander Kranjec studied philosophy at Grinnell College as an undergraduate, received his Ph D in experimental psychology from the City University of New York, and worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Neurology Department and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he is an associate professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, adjunct faculty at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, and a Community Member of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent his sabbatical as a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Dr. Kranjec is the director of the Art & Language Lab at Duquesne University. He has published extensively on topics pertaining to spatial & temporal cognition, language, and aesthetics.