ENARA GARCIA OTERO
- Ezagutza arloa
- Logika eta Zientziaren Filosofia
- Saila
- Filosofia
- Ikastegia
- Hezkuntza, Filosofia enta Antropologia Fakultatea
- Posta elektronikoa
- enara.garcia@ehu.eus
I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country. My research interest covers the wide field of embodied cognition theories and mental health, particularly, the enactive cognition approaches to psychotherapy.
My current research is structured into two main axes: First, I am interested in developing the relational and processual ontology that underlies the enactive theory to engage in classical debates in philosophy of science about the nature of mental disorders. Second, I study the influence of affective atmospheres (i.e., pathic, blurred and preindividual forms of room-filling affective experiences) in therapeutic change processes. I elaborate on the concept of therapeutic atmospheres as part of a broader inquiry of the health-environment relationship.
My philosophical position is strongly influenced by complex and dynamical systems models on psychopathology and psychotherapy, phenomenological psychiatry and Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation. I aim at integrating these thought traditions into a comprehensive enactive approach to psychotherapy and mental disorders.
I defended my PhD thesis “ Participatory sense-making in psychotherapy” at the University of the Basque Country in 2022 (maxima cum laude and international mention). The project was carried under the supervision of Ezequiel Di Paolo and Hanne De Jaegher and founded by the Basque Government (PREDOC 2018-2019)