Subjectivity and intersubjectivity tackled at the OSC Conference

On Thursday, 7 November 2024, the Cantonal Sociopsychiatric Organisation (OSC) will hold the conference "Subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Ecology of care" at Teatro Centro sociale OSC di Mendrisio. Andrea Raballo, Professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), is in charge of academic training and research at the Cantonal Sociopsychiatric Organisation (OSC).

Subjectivity and intersubjectivity are two facets of human existence that are as valuable as they are potentially problematic, "as they are the factors in which both the potential for developing psychological issues and opportunities for healing manifest." Therefore, the conference organised by the OSC aims to "investigate the reciprocal link between subjectivity and intersubjectivity, through the multiple perspectives of clinical phenomenology, neuroscience and the human sciences."

The conference will take place throughout the day at Teatro Centro Sociale OSC in Mendrisio. It will begin at 9 am with a welcome address by State Councillor Raffaele de Rosa and Daniele Intraina, the Director of OSC.

Following this, there will be speeches by Gilberto Di Petta (Head of SPDC P.O. at the Santa Maria delle Grazie Hospital in Pozzuoli), Vittorio Gallese (Full Professor of Psychobiology at the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Neuroscience Unit of the University of Parma), Giorgio Castignoli (Director of Struttura Complessa Psichiatria Area Nord, Azienda Sanitaria Locale di Novara and President of the Italian Society for Phenomenological Psychopathology), Davide Fant (Pedagogist and Trainer, adjunct lecturer at the University of Milan, collaborator at SUPSI, member of Metodi, Milan and the international research group C.I.R.C.E.) and Cesare Pietroiusti (Artist and lecturer at IUAV in Venice and NABA in Rome).

The keynotes will be interspersed with the reading of some texts by Franco Basaglia and Jean Oury. The day will end with a performance by the Club '74 theatre company Ce ci n'est pas (directed by Diego Willy Corna).

For additional information about the programme, please refer to the attached poster.