Mira Marcinów

(born 1985) – philosopher, psychologist and writer. Winner of the Paszport Polityki Award in literature for the book Bezmatek (2020). Co-founder and director of the Centre for Psychoanalytical Thought (2019–2021) at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of books: Historia polskiego szaleństwa [The History of Polish Madness] (2017, second edition 2021), Niezabliźniona rana Narcyza. Dyptyk o nieświadomości i początkach polskiej psychoanalizy [The Unhealed Wound of Narcissus. A Diptych on Unawareness and Beginnings of Polish Psychoanalysis] (with Bartłomiej Dobroczyński, 2018) and Na krawędzi wolności [On the Edge of Freedom] (2012). She deals with the history and philosophy of psychiatry and the theory of madness, focusing in particular on Polish heritage.