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existential psychiatry

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Ludwig Binswanger

Swiss psychiatrist who founded Daseinsanalysis by translating Heidegger's existential phenomenology into a clinical framework for understanding mental illness as distortions of being-in-the-world.

psychoanalysisexistential psychiatryphenomenological psychology
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Medard Boss

Swiss psychiatrist and Heidegger's closest clinical collaborator, who developed Daseinsanalysis as an alternative to Freudian metapsychology based on phenomenological analysis of patient experience.

existential psychiatrydaseinsanalysispsychosomatic medicine
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