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Bernhard Leistle

Keywords: Phenomenology of mental health and illness; psychological anthropology; anthropology of psychiatry

Research Interests

Bernhard Leistle (Department of Sociology and Anthropology) is a cultural anthropologist and phenomenologist working at the intersection between philosophy and anthropology. In the area of health research, he is interested in the lived experiences and phenomenological structures of mental health and illness, as well as in the study of psychiatry and other therapeutic systems from a cultural anthropological perspective.

Selected Publications

Leistle, Bernhard (forthcoming) “Im Zwischenreich der Therapie: Anmerkungen zu Georges Devereux’s Realität und Traum (The In-Between of Therapy: Remarks on Georges Devereux’s Reality and Dream)” In: Barbara Schellhammer (ed.) Texte und Kontexte der Philosophie: Zu Bernhard Waldenfels’ Erfahrung, die zur Sprache drängt. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 

Leistle, Bernhard 2017. “’The Order of the World’. A Responsive Phenomenology of Schreber’s Memoirs.” In: Bernhard Leistle (ed.) Anthropology and Alterity: Responding to the Other. New York: Routledge, 254 – 281

Leistle, Bernhard 2014.”From the Alien to the Other – Steps toward a Phenomenology of Spirit Possession. In: Anthropology of Consciousness 25/1: 53 – 90

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