In the course of a couple of years Elizabeth Pienkos and I worked together on understanding subjectivity in the peripartum. This resulted in a shared presentation at TMTBT III and finally in a published paper in 2026.
- 2026: Dance & Psychosis, Too Mad to Be True IV (essay for the conference)
- Pienkos, Elizabeth, and Cynthia Dorrestijn. “Radically Open and Profoundly Alone: Psychosis in the Peripartum.” Human Studies (2026): 1-22.
- 2025: Smell & Psychosis, Too Mad To Be True III (essay for the conference, to be uploaded)
- 2025: Ervaring Kennis Wijsheid (video for the webinar EKW, at request)
- 2024: State of Nascence, Too Mad to Be True II (essay for the conference, to be uploaded)
- 2022: The Female Condition during the Perinatal Period, ISPS Perugia (essay for the conference, also in Dutch)
- 2021: The drifting apart of me and my child (video for webinar ‘Mother Adrift’)
- 2019: Where there is a will, there is a way, ISPS Rotterdam (essay for the conference)
- 2017: Three times ill, three times better, ISPS Liverpool (essay for the conference)
Among others, I am inspired by New Phenomenology of Herman Schmitz, Gianni Francesetti, who connects this neophenomenology with Gestalt theory, Tonino Griffero, who puts large emphasis on olfactory perception (smell) and Maxine Sheets Johnstone, who -as a dancer- has a keen eye on how movement is our mother tongue. Aside from Gianni, I am mostly inspired by those who study ‘normal’ human experiences and not psychopathology. The reason being that I’d like to refrain from reinforcing pathologizing power of the discipline psychopathology.