„Advanced Studies Conference: Vitality and Wellbeing Aesthetic Considerations, Concepts and Clinical Practice“

The seminar is organised by the Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health of the Sigmund Freud University Vienna, the Aesthetics in Mental Health Network of the Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice, St. Catherine’s College,Oxford. and the Stiftungsfonds Erwin Ringel Institut.

Conference Location:
Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Freudplatz 1, 1020 Vienna
Lecture Room 2002

Organisers:
Michael Musalek, Sigmund Freud University Vienna
Helena Fox, Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford

Saturday November 16th 2019 | 09.00 – 18.15

09.00-09.30 Welcome and Opening
Michael Musalek (Head of the Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health), Alfred Pritz (Rector Magnificus –Sigmund Freud University Vienna)

SESSION I
Chairman: H.Fox, O.Scheibenbogen

9.30-10.00
M.Musalek: Introduction: Vitality –phenomenology and social-aesthetic perspectives

10.00-10.30
M.Diaconu: Life-enhancing beauty: a controversial issue in the aesthetic theory

10.30-11.00
F.Oyebode: Vitality and the self: abnormalities of conation

11.00-11.30
COFFEE BREAK

SESSION II
Chairman: M.Diaconu, L.Madeira

11.30-12.00
R.Zaman: LifeStyle mental health

12.00-12.30
G. Bernegger: Vitality and flourishing: a lesson from Baron Lamberto

12.30-13.00
K.Laczika: It’s a music! Already inside you

13.00-14.15
LUNCH BREAK

SESSION III
Chairman: U.Andorfer, F.Oyebode

14.15-14.45
K.Dilraj: The journey to wellness: aesthetic moments for behavioural change, measuring progress and support tools

14.45-15.15
J.Cutting: The psychopathology of vitality

15.15-15.45
S.Anderson: Psychosis revisited

15.45-16.15
COFFEEBREAK

SESSION IV
Chairman: G.Bernegger, M.Musalek,

16.15-16.45
S.Sacks: The resurrection of the world in us

16.45-17.15
H.Fox: Sense perception and imagination: Can the capacity of aesthetic awareness bring new vitality and personal sustainability to clinic work

17.15-17.45
L. Benaroyo: A Lifeworld Approach of Well-being: the Significance of Ricoeur’s and Levinas’ Thoughts for an Ethics of Care

17.45-18.15
L. Madeira: From uncanniness of the illness into health: the role of the therapeutic relation

 

Registration: obligatory
Symposium fee: none
Coffee break and lunch buffet included
Registration: Margit Zangerle: margit.zangerle@api.or.at, +43 1 880 10 -101

Download: Vitality-Symposium (pdf)