Who we are, what we do?

The Open Seminars on Philosophy and Psychiatry Foundation was officially registered as a non-profit organisation in the middle of the 2017, but as an informal group operated since April 2015, when the first conference from the Open Seminars on Philosophy and Psychiatry series was arranged. Since that time we hosted ten conferences and organized many discussion meetings, lectures, panels and workshops in Poland, gathering about 100 speakers and over 1000 participants, including experts both through education and knowledge. We oparate in Warsaw, Lublin and Poznań.

We are currently focusing on the Masovian Recovery College, founded in 2023, which is an educational institution of social support for adults experiencing a mental crisis, which we can run thanks to 3-year financing from the Masovian budget.

In November this year we are planning the 10th OSFP anniversary conference at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, promoting the recovery model and devoted to the issue of ‘what is health?’.

OSFP Foundation was the host and main organiser of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry ‘Experts in Mental Health’ (22-24 Oct. 2019).

Since 2018, in partnership with Stokłosy Culture House, we have been running Teatr Kryzys, a theater group of people with mental crisis experience.

Our main aim is to integrate the research community in the humanities / social sciences, psychiatrists, therapist, people with mental issues experiences and all citizens in order to make a change in social awareness toward more open, reflexive and inclusive direction. We are convinced that the mental health problems concern all of us and are not just private, but social and global issues, and can not be solved without ethical and philosophical reflection.

We cooperate with the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and the Laboratory of Philosophy of Mental Health in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Medical University of Karol Marcinkowski in Poznań. Our local partners also include, among others: Warsaw Fountain House, eFKropka Foundation, Stokłosy Culture House, Kadr Community Center, Stokłosy Cultural Center and UMCS Chatka Żaka Academic Center for Culture and Media.

Open Seminars on Philosophy and Psychiatry Conferences Series

The OSFP Foundation initiated and since the beginning of 2015 has been organizing a series of interdisciplinary conferences called Open Philosophical and Psychiatric Seminars, from which the name of the organization comes. By the end of 2023, 9 conferences were held, including 7 in Warsaw and 2 in Lublin.

List of completed and planned conferences:

X OSFP „Ritual of Recovery”, Aula im. Maria Ossowska at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, November 30-December 1, 2024 (scheduled).
IX OSFP „Education and Values”, Aula im. Maria Ossowska at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, November 25-26, 2023.
VIII OSFP „Hospital”, University of Warsaw Library, May 11-12, 2019.
VII OSFP „Antoni Kępiński: Psychiatrist, Human, Philosopher”, Brudziński room in the Kazimierzowski Palace, November 16, 2018.
VI OSFP entitled „Sztuka / theART”, exhibition hall of the University of Warsaw Library, April 23-24, 2017.
V OSFP „Anthropology of Experience and Mental Health”, auditorium of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, November 29-30, 2016.
IV OSF-P entitled „Relations”, exhibition hall of the University of Warsaw Library, April 23-24, 2016.
III OSF-P „Diagnoses of Modern Times”, auditorium of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, November 12-13, 2015.
II OSF-P „Norm/Pathology”, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 20, 2015.
I OSF-P „Psychiatry and Philosophy in Search of a Common Language”, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, April 18, 2015.

Foundation Board

Jakub Tercz – Chairman of the Board
Andrzej Kapusta – Vice Chairman of the Board

Program Council

Aleksandra Hamny
Marcin Moskalewicz
Katarzyna Parzuchowska
Justyna Rynkiewicz
Maciej Wodziński

Contact

Open Seminars on Philosophy and Psychiatry Foundation
36 Komisji Edukacji Narodowej Ave, Ofc. 112B
Warsaw, 02-797 Poland
fundacja@osfp.org.pl