[SydPhil] Narrative Practices in Mental Health Mon 15 – Tue 16 December 2025 University of Wollongong, Australia (Main Campus), Bldg 20, Room 5

[Lorena Sganzerla]

*Narrative Practices in Mental Health*



Mon 15 – Tue 16 December 2025

University of Wollongong, Australia (Main Campus), Bldg 20, Room 5



This two-day conference examines the potential risks and rewards of using
narrative practices in mental health contexts. It will reflect on the
various forms narrative practices can take and the different roles they can
play in enhancing or diminishing psychological well-being, including their
use in addressing serious conditions (for example, alleviating depression;
aiding addiction recovery). It will consider how they operate in both
clinical settings and as-yet unregulated contexts, such as individuals
conversing with LLMs for therapeutic ends. It will investigate whether and
to what extent narrative practices can meet explanatory, scope, and ethical
challenges related to their responsible use.



*Keynote Speakers:*

Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)

Şerife Tekin (SUNY Upstate Medical University)



*Plenary Speakers:*

Benedetta Cogo (University of Wollongong)

Emily Hughes (Macquarie University)

Daniel D. Hutto (University of Wollongong)

Douglas McConnell (Macquarie University)

Richard Menary (Macquarie University)

Lorna Moxham (University of Wollongong)

Dominic Murphy (University of Sydney)



This event will be of interest to mental health researchers and
practitioners. philosophers of psychiatry, clinicians, psychologists,
service designers, and policymakers.



This is an in-person event. The schedule is available at this link:



The conference is free and open to all, but participants are asked to make
their own arrangements for lunch and refreshments. Advance
registration via *registration
link <https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/DTmxCvl1rKiLMyG5rfQfmCQFv3J?domain=events.uow.edu.au>* is required
no later than 1 December 2025 (AEST).



Please contact Lorena Sganzerla lsganzerla at uow.edu.au or Benedetta Cogo
bc845 at uowmail.edu.au if you have queries.



This conference is generously funded by an internal research grant from the
University of Wollongong (UOW) and it is hosted by the School of Liberal
Arts.



*Daniel D. Hutto, BA, MPhil, DPhil*

Senior Professor of Philosophical Psychology

Head of the School of Liberal Arts

Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Room 1102, UOW Building 19 Arts
<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ptDhCwV1vMfVYR7mghqhXCJBKk2?domain=google.com>,
Northfields Avenue

University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia