Alessandro Guardascione
CONTACT
Email: alessandro.guardascione@ucdconnect.ie
ORCID: 0000-0002-1617-561X
I work at the intersection of phenomenology and philosophy of psychiatry, focusing on how value-experience, affectivity, and selfhood shape lived experience—especially under conditions of mental disorder. My research develops a phenomenological account of the axiological dimension of psychopathology, bringing Husserlian resources into dialogue with phenomenological psychopathology, and engaging contemporary debates on normativity in psychiatric practice.
RESEARCH FOCUS
My work investigates how evaluative experience structures what can appear as significant, promising, threatening, or worth pursuing, and how disruptions of this structure illuminate both psychopathology and the normative assumptions of psychiatric understanding. Rather than treating values as external criteria or mere preferences, I approach them as dimensions of lived experience that shape a person’s world and their sense of self.
Current themes:
• Values and phenomenological psychopathology
• Selfhood, alterity, and schizophrenic experience
• Normativity in psychiatric practice and value-based approaches
• Husserlian axiology: approbation/disapprobation and evaluative intentionality
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• Situating evaluativism in psychiatry: on the axiological dimension of phenomenological psychopathology and Fulford’s value-based practice (Philosophical Psychology, 2025). DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2024.2350489.
• Selfhood and alterity: schizophrenic experience between Blankenburg and Tatossian (Frontiers in Psychology, 2023). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1214474.
• Approbation and Disapprobation in Husserl’s Phenomenology: Navigating Value Conflicts through Justified Evaluations (Kultura i Wartości, 34, 2022). DOI: 10.17951/kw.2022.34.27-52.
TEACHING
Tutor, Body, Mind, and World (University College Dublin): leading tutorial discussions, grading, and student feedback (2023–2024).