Professor Andrzej Kapusta (dr hab.) was the Chair (2014-2019) of the Cultural Anthropology and Social Philosophy Department in the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at Maria Curie-Skodowska University, Poland.

He specialises in cognitive sciences and social communication, expert knowledge and decision making, anthropology of medicine, philosophical psychopathology, and the analysis of different dimensions of mental health and concepts of contemporary psychiatry and psychology. He is working on the book on Philosophy as Therapy. 

Teaching:

philosophy, epistemology, methodology of science, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of psychiatry, health education, bioethics, philosophy of mind, psychology, social psychology, social psychopathology, biomedical basis of human behavior, philosophy as therapy, decision-making, mindreading, interpersonal communication, teamwork.

Current scientific research:

Personal transformations, practice of the self, expert knowledge and decision making, philosophy as therapy, experience and the self, cultures of healing, philosophical practice. 

Books:

Filozofia ekstremalna. Wokół myśli krytycznej Michela Foucaulta [Extremal Philosophy: Michel Foucault's Critical Thinking, 2001]

Szaleństwo i metoda: granice rozumienia w filozofii i psychiatrii [Madness and Method. The limits of understanding in philosophy and psychiatry] (Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2010)

Medical Humanities in Theory and Practice. Edited by Andrzej Kapusta and Michal Lytovka. This book first published 2017. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [https://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/63939]

New articles:

1. "Theory of incomprehensibility": social and environmental determinants of mental disorders, Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine Ann Agric Environ Med 2013; 20(4):832-837(impact factor 3,060)

2. Pojęcie choroby psychicznej w fenomenologicznej perspektywie Studia Metodologiczne, Numer 30, 2013, s. 41-61

3. Understanding in psychopathology and engaged epistemology, Kultura i wartosci, 4(8)/ 2013:, s. 149-160

4. Filozofia zdrowia, [w:]  Podstawy interdyscyplinarności w naukach o zdrowiu, Lublin 2014, Wydawnictwo KUL

5. Karl Jaspers’ Psychopathology and contemporary psychiatry, Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, Available Volume 23, Issue 4, October–December 2014, Pages 169–178

6. Delusions in Phenomenological Perspective, Avant Rok 5 (2014), nr 3, 113-125 (online)

7. O roli myślenia technologicznego w psychiatrii współczesnej Diametros 44 (2015): 45–55 (online)

8. Philosophical counselling – philosophical practice in therapy and modern education. [w:] Contemporary Educational Challenges, ed. R. Radzik and A. Kisla, Wyd. UMCS, Lublin 2015.

9. Problem obiektywności w medycynie na przykładzie pojęcia choroby, „Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa” 2(204) 2015, 167-174

10. Czy istnieje filozofia psychiatrii, Filozofia medycyny – rozważania o tradycji i nowoczesności red M. Moskalewicz, J. Zamojski Poznan (UM) 2017, s. 171-188.

11. Kapusta, Rarot, H (2017), Ku dojrzałości. Esej o wybranych sposobach terapii wstydu w doradztwie psychologicznym i filozoficznym, ETHOS. KWARTALNIK INSTYTUTU JANA PAWLA II KUL, s. 129-134.

12. Kapusta, A., de Barbaro, B. Foucault Michel, Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy, Kluwer, online, p. 2 2018.

13. Ucieleśnienie, neuronauki i literatura, Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne Seria Literacka 34 (54)2018 doi: 10.14746/pspsl.2018.34.1

14. Genealogy of Polish Melancholy. Commentary to Mira Marcinów’s Book The History of Polish Madness, Avant, Vol. XI, No. 1, doi: 10.26913/avant.2020.01.04, http://avant.edu.pl/en/2020-01-04

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