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Tanya Luhrmann
Tanya Luhrmann
Dr. Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. She uses a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to understand the phenomenology of unusual sensory experiences, the way they are shaped by ideas about minds and persons, and what we can learn from this social shaping that can help us to help those whose voices are distressing. At the heart of the work is the sense of being called, and its possibilities and burden.
Stephan Heckers
Stephan Heckers
Dr. Stephan Heckers studies the neural basis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. His laboratory combines neuroimaging experiments in patients with cellular and molecular studies. Dr. Heckers is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and bipolar disorder. He takes care of patients, who experience acute psychotic episodes, at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and leads a multi-disciplinary specialty clinic for patients with psychotic disorders. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Dr. Paul Janssen Schizophrenia Research Award and the A.E. Bennett Award.
Angela Woods
Angela Woods
Dr. Angela Woods is a medical humanities researcher with research interests and expertise spanning three linked areas: the interplay between clinical, experiential and cultural-theoretical accounts of voice-hearing and psychosis; narrative and its role in understanding health; and the dynamics of interdisciplinary and collaborative research. She is founding editor of The Polyphony and a Series Editor for Bloomsbury's Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities book series. She has previously served as Associate Editor of the BMJ Medical Humanities Journal, and as academic lead for the world's first major exhibition on voice-hearing, Hearing Voices: Suffering, Inspiration and the Everyday.
Frank Larøi
Frank Larøi
Dr. Frank Larøi investigates psychosis (and specific symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, negative symptoms, etc.) with a variety of methodologies. He is a leading member of the University of Oslo's Research Unit of Neuropsychopathology (RUN). The RUN seeks to understand underpinnings of cognitive impairments in severe mental disorders, how cognition predicts functioning and prognosis, and how cognitive impairments can be treated in people with severe mental disorders.
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