publications

García, E. (2025, in press). Atmospheres. Embodied and affective ecologies of psychotherapy. Francesetti, G.,  Griffero, T. & Gecele, M. (eds.) Felt Spaces Between Life and Clinical Practice. Routledge


García, E. (2025). Process and Relational Ontology in Enactive Psychiatry. In Barandiaran, X. & Etxeberria, A. (eds.) Outonomy: Fleshing out autonomy beyond the individual. Routledge.


García, E., & Barandiaran, X. E. (2024) Varieties of normativity and mental health. An enactive approach. Synthese. [Q1]


Lozada, M., Garcia, E., Chaoul, A., & D’Adamo, P. (2024). Towards an enactive approach to health: an integrative perspective which considers interdependence, agency, autonomy and participatory sensemaking in therapeutic phenomena. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1440751. [Q2]


García, E. (2024). Affective atmospheres and the enactive-ecological framework: a conceptual analysis. Philosophical Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2229350. [Q1]


García, E. (2023). Therapeutic atmospheres. The aesthetics of therapeutic spaces. Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience (23).


García, E. (2023). Affectivity in mental disorders. An enactive-simondonian approach. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1007/s11097-023-09929-8. [Q1]


García, E., & Arandia, I. R. (2022). Enactive and Simondonian reflections on mental disorders. Frontiers in Psychology, 4453. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938105. [Q1]


García, E. (2022). Enactive Psychiatry or Existential Psychiatry?. Constructivist Foundations, 17(2), 165-169. [Q1]


García, E., Di Paolo, E.A., and De Jaegher, H. (2021) Embodiment in online psychotherapy: A qualitative study. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. DOI:10.1111/papt.12359. [Q1]


García, E. (2021). Participatory Sense-Making in Therapeutic Interventions. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211000210. [Q1]


García, E., (2019). Der Beitrag des Enaktivismus-Konzepts der Kognitionswissenschaft zur Gestalttherapie. Gestalttherapie, 33, 76-87.


García, E., (2019). Las contribuciones enactivas a la Terapia Gestalt. Figura Fondo, 46, 57-71.


García, E., & Di Paolo, E. A. (2018). Embodied coordination and psychotherapeutic outcome: beyond direct mappings. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1257. [Q2]


François, C., Cunillera, T., Garcia, E., Laine, M., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2017). Neurophysiological evidence for the interplay of speech segmentation and word-referent mapping during novel word learning. Neuropsychologia, 98, 56-67.




TALKS & MEDIA:

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E. García (10-14 November 2025). The Path-Dependent Mind: Individuation, Vulnerability, and the Ontogenesis of Mental Conditions. ECog Conference, Okinawa, Japan. [invited speaker, international]


E. García (26-27 September 2025). The Path-Dependent Mind: Individuation, Vulnerability, and the Ontogenesis of Mental Disorder. Workshop Forgotten Female Bodies. University of the Basque Country. San Sebastian, Spain.  [invited speaker, international]


E. García (5-7 September 2025). Therapeutic Atmospheres. 6th International Gestalt Research Conference. Birmingham, UK. [selected oral communication, international]

E. García (27-29 August 2025). Atmospheres in Psychotherapy. Lifeworlds in Crisis. Applying Phenomenology. British Society for Phenomenology & University College Dublin. Dublin, Ireland. [selected oral communication, international]


E. García (26-31 July 2025). The therapeutic gaze. Mind & Life Europe Summer Research Institute. "Down to Earth: Exploring Meaningful Ways of Living, Together". Rangjung Yeshe Gomde,  Austria. [invited faculty speaker, international]


E. García (14-16 January 2025). Bridging Atmospheres and Affordances: A Phenomenological-Enactive Approach to Situated Affectivity. Reading the Air: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Atmospheres. Torino, Italy [invited speaker, international]


E. García (3-5 July 2024). Varieties of affects and the enactive approach to psychiatry. Conference ‘Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Experience’. Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Braga. [selected oral communication, international]


E. García (25-27 June 2024). Varieties of normativity and mental health: an enactive approach. International Workshop 4E Cognition and Analytic Philosophy. Granada. [selected oral communication, international]


E. García (13 June 2024). Varieties of normativity and mental health: an enactive approach. International workshop on Varieties of Normativity. University of the Basque Country. San Sebastian. [invited speaker, international]



E. García (22 September 2023). Sobre las raíces teóricas de la terapia gestalt: Uniendo teoría y práctica. Gestalt Conference EAGT. Madrid. 21-24 [invited conference, international]


E. García (29 May – 2 June 2023). García, E. Affectivity and mental disorders. ICNAP XIV: Affect in Dialogue. A conference on phenomenology of affect. University of Copenhagen [selected communication, international].


E. García (25-26 May 2023). Situational affective atmospheres and the enactive-ecological framework. A conceptual integration. Sensibilia 17. Colloquium on Perception and Experience. Organizer: Tonino Griffero. Centro di Ricerca Paesaggio e Territorio. Tor Vergata, Università degli Studi di Roma. [invited speaker, international]


E. García (6-8 March 2023). Affectivity in mental disorders. An enactive-simondonian approach. 4th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind. 4E’s approach to the Mind/Brain. Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Braga, Portugal [selected communication, international]

E. García (4 October 2022). Enactive normativity and mental disorders. Workshop on Normativity and Mental disorders. University of Granada. Spain. [invited conference, international]


E. García (29 May 2019). Enactive contributions to Gestalt Therapy. IV International Conference on Research in Gestalt Therapy. 2019. Chile. [selected oral presentation, international]


E. García (10 May 2019). Interpersonal coordination in psychotherapy: a comment from enactivism. IX Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science Research Workshop. Universidad del País Vasco. 2019. Spain. [selected oral presentation, international]


Media:


E. García (05 October 2023). Affectivity in mental disorders. An enactive-simondonian approach. ENSO Seminar Series. (online) [invited speaker].


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Public apparition: Podcast Basilika (05/01/2023). https://basilika.eus/besaulkia-zer-da-filosofia-galderari-erantzun-lurtarra


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Public appearance: Baipasa Radio Program: About science and philosophy discussion group (30/04/2025, 16:00).


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