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Members of the research project are... Francesca Brencio is Associate Researcher at the Research Group "Filosofía Aplicada: Sujeto, Sufrimiento, Sociedad" at the University of Seville (Spain), and member of The Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice at the S. Catherine College at the University of Oxford (UK). She leads the Pheno-Lab, A Theoretical Laboratory on Philosophy and Mental Health . She also works as a philosophical counselor. More info at: https://us.academia.edu/FrancescaBrencio https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesca-Brencio Susi Ferrarello , is associate professor at California State University, East Bay. She has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in Paris, a master’s in Human Rights and Political Science from the University of Bologna. Among her books, The Ethics of Love (Routledge, 2023), Human Emotions and the Origin of Bioethics (Routledge, 2021), Husserl's Ethics and Practical Intentionality (Bloomsbury, 2015). She writes for Psychol

The idea   Stuck on the puzzle. A philosophical inquiry on OCD  aims to provide a philosophical understanding on experiences of compulsions, obsessions and intense uncertainty, commonly through the contribution of people experiencing such phenomena. These experiences are typically thought of as part of an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but you do not have to be officially diagnosed as such or identify with this label in order to talk to us.  We are a goup of philosophers interested in people’s experiences. Some of us, who are conceiving this project, do have OCD, and this is what motivates us to initiate a dialogue on this theme, bringing together philosophical resources, especially those coming from the field of phenomenology, and lived experiences.  We are planning to create a podcast featuring a dialogue with people who have, or have had, these experiences. We believe that this kind of conversations can reveal certain aspects that are useful for society to consider, and also