On Friday, February 6, the recent edition of Ludwig Binswanger's classic monograph, On the Flight of Ideas (AEN, 2025) and the collective volume The Clinic of Subjectivity, Psychopathology (Structural) and Culture (Contemporary), published at the end of 2025 by the publishing house Tirant Humanidades,  were presented at the López Piñero-UV Institute.

The event was organized by Enric Novella, professor of history of science and member of the IILP and included José Gonzalez Calvo, doctor of psychiatry and Andrés Porcel,  doctor of medicine and psychiatry. Firstly, the first translation into Spanish of the book On the Flight of Ideas by  the psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger was presented and continued with the presentation of the collective book The Clinic of Subjectivity, which was coordinated by Enric Novella. Both works condense the result of a research project that seeks to rethink psychopathology from a historical, phenomenological and cultural perspective.

During the presentation of the speakers, the idea was raised that psychiatry is in crisis due to a structural condition since the discipline has tried to apply certain methods of the natural sciences to the singularity of human experience. The relationship between a singular individual and the generalizing methods of scientific models constitutes a permanent fracture, which has been intensified by institutional and cultural factors.

During the presentation, the relevance of the work and work of Ludwig Binswanger was highlighted, as well as his biography, since he was a pioneer in integrating phenomenology, integral philosophy and psychiatric clinic and thus understanding mental disorders as forms of existence and particular ways of being in the world, not only as dysfunctions. The presenters celebrated the translation of his work into Spanish as it is part of an editorial event that allows reopening debates on the nature of the mind and the ethics of psychiatry.

On the other hand, the collective volume The Clinic of Subjectivity examines structural psychopathology in dialogue with history, anthropology, education, and the social sciences. The book shows how psychopathology describes culture and also produces and transforms it.

The presenters ended by referring to the fact that rigorous psychopathology that is sensitive to human uniqueness can aspire to understand what happens to us in a crazed world in which we have had to live.

Ivania Maturana, extracurricular internship student of the Interuniversity Master's Degree in History and Communication of Science