Martin Poltrum is a Philosopher, Psychotherapist and Professor of Psychotherapy at Sigmund Freud University Vienna (SFU). He studied Philosophy and Education in Innsbruck, Vienna and Seville, with a 2003 Doctoral degree in Philosophy, 2014 Habilitation in Psychotherapy Science at SFU. He is Head of the Doctoral Programme in Psychotherapy Science and Deputy Head of the Institute for Behavioural Addictions and Addiction Research at SFU, as well as a teaching therapist for Existential Analysis at Danube University Krems. He is the publisher of Rausch - Vienna Journal for Addiction Treatment. His research and teaching activities are in the field of addiction and at the interface of philosophy, psychotherapy, ethics, aesthetics and medical humanities.
Michael Musalek is a Specialist for Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Psychotherapist. He is Full Professor and Chair of Dept. General Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Sigmund Freud , Vienna and Director of the Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna and Berlin. He has published more than 350 scientific publications and is editor and scientific board member of various scientific and clinical journals. His main scientific fields of interests are social aesthetics, phenomenology of mental disorders, theoretical and clinical psychopathology, clinical diagnostics and treatment research, psychosomatics and medical humanities.
Kathleen Galvin is a Professor in Nursing having held positions at University of Hull, and University of Bournemouth before her current role at the University of Brighton. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester focused on development of nursing practice in the promotion of health. She is a member of Academia Europea and holds visiting positions in Scandinavia and Canada. Her academic project concerns a contribution to philosophically informed theoretical insights for care, the focus is to build upon lifeworld oriented work.
Yuriko Saito received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She taught a variety of philosophy courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, from 1981-2018. Her research areas are everyday aesthetics, Japanese aesthetics, and environmental aesthetics. Her work in these areas has appeared in numerous journal articles and book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and three monographs. She has also lectured widely both within the US and outside, which included Austria, China, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Spain, and The Netherlands. She is the Editor of Contemporary Aesthetics, the first online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal in aesthetics.