Anna Bortolan - Research

My research interests lie primarily at the intersection of phenomenology, philosophy of emotion, and philosophy of psychiatry. More specifically, some of the main questions I have been exploring in my work concern the relationship between emotions, narratives, and self-understanding; the role of affective experience in psychopathology; and the nature of self-esteem.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Bortolan, A. (Forthcoming). Becoming Oneself Online: Narrative Self-Constitution and the Internet. Philosophical Studies.
Bortolan, A. (2023). Healing Online? Social Anxiety and Emotion Regulation in Pandemic Experience. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09886-2
Bortolan, A. (2022). Selves Hijacked: Affects and Personhood in 'Self-Illness Ambiguity'. Philosophical Explorations, 25(3): 343-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2022.2093393
Bortolan, A. (2022). Online Emotions: A Framework. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2044378
Bortolan, A. (2021). Narrate It Until You Become It. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 7(4), 474-493. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2020.46
Bortolan, A. (2020). Narratively Shaped Emotions: The Case of Borderline Personality Disorder. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 45(2), 212-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhz037
Bortolan, A. (2020). Affectivity and the Distinction Between Minimal and Narrative Self. Continental Philosophy Review, 53, 67-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-019-09471-y
Bortolan, A. (2018). Self-Esteem and Ethics: A Phenomenological View. Hypatia, 33(1), 56-72. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12388
Bortolan, A. (2017). Affectivity and Moral Experience: An Extended Phenomenological account. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16(3), 471-490. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-016-9468-9
Bortolan, A. (2017). Affectivity and Narrativity in Depression: A Phenomenological Study. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 20(1), 77-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-016-9735-0

Book Chapters

Bortolan, A. (Forthcoming). Delusions in Depression. In E. Sullivan-Bissett (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion. Routledge.
Bortolan, A. (2023). Good Enough to be Myself? The Fraught Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Self-Knowledge. In A. Montes-Sánchez & A. Salice (Eds.), Emotional Self-Knowledge (pp. 125-144). New York: Routledge.
Bortolan, A. (2022). Social Anxiety, Self-Consciousness, and Interpersonal Experience. In A. Bortolan, & E. Magrì (Eds.). Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran (pp. 303-321). Berlin: De Gruyter
Ratcliffe, M. & Bortolan, A. (2020). Emotion Regulation in a Disordered World: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder. In G. Stanghellini & C. Tewes, (Eds.), Time and Body: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches (pp. 177-200). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bortolan, A. (2020). Overcoming the Gaze: Psychopathology, Affect, and Narrative. In A. Daly, F. Cummins, J. Jardine, & D. Moran, (Eds.), Perception and the Inhuman Gaze: Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences (pp. 192-204). New York, Oxon: Routledge.
Bortolan, A. (2020). Self-Esteem, Pride, Embarrassment and Shyness. In T. Szanto & H. Landweer, (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion (pp. 358-368). London, New York: Routledge.
Bortolan, A. (2019). Phenomenological Psychopathology and Autobiography. In G. Stanghellini, M. Broome, A. Fernandez, P. Fusar-Poli, A. Raballo, R. Rosfort, (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology (1053-1064). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited Books

Bortolan, A., Magrì, E. (2022). Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran. Berlin: De Gruyter

Edited Special Issues

Bortolan, A. & Salice, A. (Eds.) (2018). Philosophical Perspectives on Affective Experience and Psychopathology. [Special Issue] Discipline Filosofiche, 2.

Conference Proceedings

Bortolan, A. (2011). A Phenomenological Discussion of Antonio Damasio’s Theory of Emotions. Phenomenology and Mind. The online journal of the centre of phenomenology and sciences of the person, 1, 142-150.
Bortolan, A. (2009). Coscienza di sé e coscienza degli altri. Il ruolo dell’esperienza corporea. In F. Parsi & M. Primo, (Eds.), Natura, comunicazione, neurofilosofie (pp. 65-72). Corisco.

Book Review

Bortolan, A. (2009). Fra illusione e previsione: il ruolo del cervello nella costruzione della mente. [Review of the book Making Up the Mind. How the Brain Creates Our Mental World, by C. Frith]. RIFL. Rivista Italiana Filosofia Linguaggio, 1, 255-259.

Other Publications

Bortolan, A. & Salice, A. (2018). Introduction. Discipline Filosofiche [Special Issue: Philosophical Perspectives on Affective Experience and Psychopathology], 2, 5-20.
Bortolan, A. (2017, March 14). Unthinkable. What lies behind your self-esteem? Interview by J. Humphreys. Irish Times.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Bortolan, A. (Forthcoming). Becoming Oneself Online: Narrative Self-Constitution and the Internet. Philosophical Studies.

Bortolan, A. (2023). Healing Online? Social Anxiety and Emotion Regulation in Pandemic Experience. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09886-2

Bortolan, A. (2022). Selves Hijacked: Affects and Personhood in 'Self-Illness Ambiguity'. Philosophical Explorations, 25(3): 343-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2022.2093393

Bortolan, A. (2022). Online Emotions: A Framework. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2044378

Bortolan, A. (2021). Narrate It Until You Become It. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 7(4), 474-493. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2020.46

Bortolan, A. (2020). Narratively Shaped Emotions: The Case of Borderline Personality Disorder. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 45(2), 212-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhz037

Bortolan, A. (2020). Affectivity and the Distinction Between Minimal and Narrative Self. Continental Philosophy Review, 53, 67-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-019-09471-y

Bortolan, A. (2018). Self-Esteem and Ethics: A Phenomenological View. Hypatia, 33(1), 56-72. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12388

Bortolan, A. (2017). Affectivity and Moral Experience: An Extended Phenomenological account. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16(3), 471-490. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-016-9468-9

Bortolan, A. (2017). Affectivity and Narrativity in Depression: A Phenomenological Study. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 20(1), 77-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-016-9735-0

Book Chapters

Bortolan, A. (Forthcoming). Delusions in Depression. In E. Sullivan-Bissett (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion. Routledge.

Bortolan, A. (2023). Good Enough to be Myself? The Fraught Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Self-Knowledge. In A. Montes-Sánchez & A. Salice (Eds.), Emotional Self-Knowledge (pp. 125-144). New York: Routledge.

Bortolan, A. (2022). Social Anxiety, Self-Consciousness, and Interpersonal Experience. In A. Bortolan, & E. Magrì (Eds.). Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran (pp. 303-321). Berlin: De Gruyter

Ratcliffe, M. & Bortolan, A. (2020). Emotion Regulation in a Disordered World: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder. In G. Stanghellini & C. Tewes, (Eds.), Time and Body: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches (pp. 177-200). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bortolan, A. (2020). Overcoming the Gaze: Psychopathology, Affect, and Narrative. In A. Daly, F. Cummins, J. Jardine, & D. Moran, (Eds.), Perception and the Inhuman Gaze: Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences (pp. 192-204). New York, Oxon: Routledge.

Bortolan, A. (2020). Self-Esteem, Pride, Embarrassment and Shyness. In T. Szanto & H. Landweer, (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion (pp. 358-368). London, New York: Routledge.

Bortolan, A. (2019). Phenomenological Psychopathology and Autobiography. In G. Stanghellini, M. Broome, A. Fernandez, P. Fusar-Poli, A. Raballo, R. Rosfort, (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology (1053-1064). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited Books

Bortolan, A., Magrì, E. (2022). Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran. Berlin: De Gruyter

Edited Special Issues

Bortolan, A. & Salice, A. (Eds.) (2018). Philosophical Perspectives on Affective Experience and Psychopathology. [Special Issue] Discipline Filosofiche, 2.

Conference Proceedings

Bortolan, A. (2011). A Phenomenological Discussion of Antonio Damasio’s Theory of Emotions. Phenomenology and Mind. The online journal of the centre of phenomenology and sciences of the person, 1, 142-150.

Bortolan, A. (2009). Coscienza di sé e coscienza degli altri. Il ruolo dell’esperienza corporea. In F. Parsi & M. Primo, (Eds.), Natura, comunicazione, neurofilosofie (pp. 65-72). Corisco.

Book Review

Bortolan, A. (2009). Fra illusione e previsione: il ruolo del cervello nella costruzione della mente. [Review of the book Making Up the Mind. How the Brain Creates Our Mental World, by C. Frith]. RIFL. Rivista Italiana Filosofia Linguaggio, 1, 255-259.

Other Publications

Bortolan, A. & Salice, A. (2018). Introduction. Discipline Filosofiche [Special Issue: Philosophical Perspectives on Affective Experience and Psychopathology], 2, 5-20.

Bortolan, A. (2017, March 14). Unthinkable. What lies behind your self-esteem? Interview by J. Humphreys. Irish Times.