Dr Lucienne Spencer
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Mental Health Ethics, Department of Psychiatry
About
Dr Lucienne Spencer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Mental Health Ethics located within the Neuroscience, Ethics and Society (NEUROSEC) Team in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Her research primarily focuses on phenomenology, epistemic injustice and the philosophy of psychiatry.
She completed her SWW-DTP funded PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bristol in 2021. Her thesis is entitled Breaking the Silence: a Phenomenological Account of Epistemic Injustice and its Role in Psychiatry.
Dr Spencer is a member of the executive committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy, UK.
Expertise
- Injustices faced by people with mental ill health
- Mental health stigma
- Young people’s involvement in mental health research
- Injustices faced by people who are suicidal
- Person-centred and patient-informed mental health care
- Intersectional (e.g. race, gender) prejudices in mental health care
- The philosophy of psychiatry
- Feminist philosophy
- Psychiatry
Selected publications
- Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare (Social Epistemology, 2024)
- The future of phenomenological psychopathology (Philosophical Psychology, 2024)
- ‘Testimonial Injustice and Suicidal Ideation’ (Epistemic Injustice and Violence: Exploring Knowledge, Power, and Participation in Philosophy and Beyond, 2024)
- ‘The Hermeneutic Problem of Psychiatry’ and the Co-Production of Meaning in Psychiatric Healthcare (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplementary, 2023)
- ‘Isn’t Everyone a Little OCD?’ The Epistemic Harms of Wrongful Depathologization (Philosophy of Medicine, 2021)
- Commentary: Closing the gender gap in depression through the lived experience of young women – a response to ‘Don't mind the gap: Why do we not care about the gender gap in mental health?’, Patalay and Demkowicz (Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2023)
- Hermeneutical injustice and unworlding in Psychopathology (Philosophical Psychology, 2023)
- Epistemic Injustice in Late-Stage Dementia: A Case for Non-Verbal Testimonial Injustice (Social Epistemology, 2022)