Richard Gipps

Richard Gipps
Present Clinical Psychologist with a private psychotherapy practice in Oxford
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. (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 am currently writing a book - 'On Madness' - a philosophical investigation of the intelligibility of psychotic thought (forthcoming with Bloomsbury), and also '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: in recovering and deploying the resources of wisdom already contained in such ethical concepts as articulate what it is to live a truly human life.

 

I'll be giving the lecture course ‘Introduction to Psychology’ at Blackfriars Hall in 2022.