Richard Gipps

Richard Gipps
Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall
Associate Faculty Member
richard.gipps@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

 

See pages on personal websites: 

www.richardgipps.co.uk

http://clinicalphilosophy.blogspot.com

https://oxford.academia.edu/RichardGipps

Present Clinical Psychologist with a private psychotherapy practice in Oxford and Senior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall
2004 - 2008 DClinPsy, Canterbury Christ Church University
1998 - 2002 PhD in Philosophy, University of Warwick,
1994 - 1997 BA/MA in Philosophy and Psychology, University of Oxford

 

Gipps, R. G. T. (2023). Psychotherapy as ethics. Philosophies, 8, 2, 

Gipps, R. G. T. (2022). "I’ve got anxiety”. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56, 1, 124-128.

Gipps, R. G. T. (2022). On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind. London: Bloomsbury.
Gipps, R. G. T. (Ed.) (2004, 2018, 2020). Special issues of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology journal - on Autism, Psychoanalysis, and (with Sanneke de Haan) Enactivism.
Gipps, R. G. T. (2020). 'An enactivist approach to ego boundary loss in schizophrenia'. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 27, 1, 91-106. 
Gipps, R. G. T. (2020). 'The narcissism of the private linguist'. In Balaska, M. (Ed.), Cora Diamond on Ethics. Palgrave MacMillan.
Gipps, R. G. T. & Lacewing, M. (Eds.), (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gipps, R. G. T. (2019). 'A new kind of song: the art of psychoanalysis'. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gipps, R. G. T. & deHaan, S. (2019). 'Schizophrenic autism'. In The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gipps, R. G. T. & Lacewing, M. (2019). 'Know thyself'. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gipps, R. G. T. (2017). 'Does the cognitive therapy of depression rest on a mistake?'. BJPsych Bulletin, 51, 272-275.
Gipps, R. G. T. (2016). 'Schizophrenic discourse as disturbed relating'. Journal of Psychopathology, 22, 71-78.

 

  • Wittgenstein - I convene the Oxford Wittgenstein Reading Group: https://wrgoxford.blogspot.com.
  • Philosophical Methodology
  • Philosophy of Psychiatry
  • Psychopathology
  • Psychotherapy
  • Psychoanalysis 
  • Psychology
  • Philosophy in everyday life

I recently had a book published with Bloomsbury - 'On Madness' - which is a philosophical investigation of the intelligibility of psychotic thought. A work in progress is 'Love's Possibility: On Dignity and Loneliness in Human Life' - which concerns the significance of conceiving oneself as lovable for the palliation of loneliness. This reflects a more general interest: recovering, and deploying in psychotherapy and elsewhere, such resources of wisdom as are already contained in our virtue concepts.

 

I supervise graduate students in philosophy of psychology/psychiatry; offer tutorials in Wittgenstein; and am lecturer in psychology for Blackfriars Studium.