Thomas FUCHS

Thomas FUCHS

Thomas FUCHS

Psychiatrist and philosopher.

MD History of Medicine (Munich), PhD Philosophy (Munich), Habilitation in Psychiatry (Heidelberg), Habilitation in Philosophy (Heidelberg) Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophy and Psychiatry at the Department of General Psychiatry, Universität Heidelberg.

His research areas lie at the intersection of phenomenology, psychopathology and cognitive neuroscience, with a main emphasis on embodiment, enactivism, temporality and intersubjectivity.

He has authored over 300 journal articles, book chapters and several books. He is also co-editor of Psychopathology and editorial board member of 4 scientific journals. He is Chairman of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Anthropologie, Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie” (DGAP).

 

Major Research Projects:

  1. Coordinator of the European Marie-Curie Research Training Network "DISCOS - Disorders and and Coherence of the Embodied Self" (2007-2011), including 9 European Centers from philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry and developmental psychology.
  2. Coordinator of the Joint National Research Project "The brain as an organ of interrelations - Interdisciplinary perspectives on the development of socially induced capacities", funded by the Volkswagenstiftung (208-2011), including German centers from philosophy, neurobiology, developmental psychology and psychiatry.

Monographs and chapters in the monographs

  1. Fuchs T. (2023). Transhumanism, Embodied Cognition, and Psychiatry. In Zimmermann J. (ed). Human Flourishing in a Technological World: A Theological Perspective. Oxford University Press, pp. 176–189. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844019.003.0009
  2. Fuchs T. (2023). Die Zwischenleiblichkeit der Berührung. In Uzarewicz C., Gugutzer R., Uzarewicz M., Latka T. (Hrs). Phänomenologische und therapeutische Aspekte. In Berühren und berührt werden. Zur Phänomenologie der Nähe. Freiburg: Alber, S. 155-171.

Scopus / Web of Science

  1. Schnitzler T., Korn C., Herpertz S. C., Fuchs T. (2023). Emotion recognition in autism spectrum condition during the COVID-19 pandemic. Autism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231203306 (Scopus)
  2. Schnitzler T., Fuchs T. (2023). Autism as a Disorder of Affective Empathy. Psychopathology, 57(1): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1159/000533655 (Scopus, Web of Science)
  3. Martin L., Melchert D., Knack M., Fuchs T. (2023). Relating movement markers of schizophrenia to self-experience - a mixed-methods study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14: 1212508. 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1212508 (Scopus)

Articles on Education

  1. Fusar-Poli P., Estradé A., Stanghellini G., Fuchs T. et al. (2023). The lived experience of depression: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics. World psychiatry: official journal of the World Psychiatric Association, 22(3): 352-365. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21111