Camilla Caglioti is a PhD researcher interested in the movements offering alternatives to classical psychiatry that emerged in the second half of the 20th century, specifically the French psychothérapie institutionnelle and the Italian psichiatria democratica. She is dedicated to exploring the phenomenological source of these movements and their political critiques, focusing on the work of Frantz Fanon. Joining the project »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe« at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in June 2024, she is developing a research project on Frantz Fanon’s work and its connections to French psychothérapie institutionnelle and Italian psichiatria democratica.
Caglioti studied philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome (B.A.) and at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (M.A.). Her research focused on the reception of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology in the work of Frantz Fanon as well as the French reception of Edmund Husserl’s late work. Motivated to explore the connection between (critical) phenomenology and psychology, she pursued a bachelor’s degree and a master’s 1 degree in clinical psychology at Paris Cité University. She has completed clinical internships both in a Club thérapeutique, based on institutional psychotherapy, and in the clinic of exile. Her master 1 thesis explores the community as a vector of care in the clinic of vulnerability and precarity.
- Contemporary Philosophy
- Decolonial Studies
- Institutional Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Antipsychiatry
- Clinic of Exile
- Critical Phenomenology
Education
- 2023–2024 Master in Clinical Psychology (Psychologie Clinique: psychopathologie psychanalytique du lien social) at the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Paris-Cité.
- 2022–2023 Licence (B.A.) in Psychology and Humanities (Psychologie et Humanités) at the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies of the University of Paris-Cité. Title of the thesis: J. au Club des Peupliers. Un investissement ambivalent. Supervisor: Cristina Cernat.
- 2021–2022 Research Track Master (M.A.) in Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Title of the thesis: La réception de l’Origine de la géométrie de Edmund Husserl en Maurice Merleau-Ponty et Jacques Derrida. Supervisor: Renaud Barbaras.
- 2019 January–June. Erasmus Programme at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.
- 2016–2019 Bachelor (B.A.) in Philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome. Title of the thesis: La ricezione della fenomenologia di Merleau-Ponty nell’opera di Frantz Fanon Supervisor: Francesco Valerio Tommasi.
Publications
Presentations
- June 2023 “L’ontologie indirecte de Merleau-Ponty entre ‘institution’ et ‘horizon’”. Doctoral Seminar on Phenomenology in collaboration between Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne/Paris IV/ENS.
- November 2022 “Le problème du langage dans Peau noire, masques blancs”. Interdisciplinary study group on decolonial thought co-organized with the doctorands of Sorbonne-Paris 1- Sorbonne Paris IV.
- October 2022 “Fanon and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Colonial Algeria”. Annual Doctoral Workshop organized by EHESS and EFR on “Race and Western Societies: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”.
- May 2022 “La réception de la phénoménologie merleaupontienne dans la dimension de la corporalité chez Fanon” – Merleau Ponty’s Student Seminar, organized by ENS students.
- May 2021 “Phénoménologie de l’expérience : incommensurabilité, singularité et colonialisme, Fanon (lecteur de Merleau-Ponty) & Wolff (lecteur de Ricœur)” with Luz Ascàrate. Doctoral Seminar in collaboration between Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne and EHESS: “Les applications de la méthode phénoménologique” (October 2021 – June 2022).
Publications
- Camilla Caglioti: “Pour une phénoménologie de la colonialité : l’œuvre de Frantz Fanon”, Bulletin d’analyse phénoménologique, 19 (2023), 75–104.
- 2023–2024 Internship Dispositif parcours Hopital d’Avicenne. Present Internship in Clinical Psychology at the Dispositif Parcours of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny, an interdisciplinary program that supports recently arrived refugees.
- 2022–2023 Internship in Clinical Psychology at Club des Peupliers, a therapeutic club inspired by Institutional Psychotherapy.
- 2022–2023 Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. Internship at the theatre workshop of Club des Peupliers at Théatre de l’Opprimé Paris.