Ludwig Binswanger was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of existential psychology.
16 Facts About Ludwig Binswanger
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Ludwig Binswanger's parents were Robert Johann Binswanger and Bertha Hasenclever.
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Robert's brother Otto Binswanger was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Jena.
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Ludwig Binswanger is considered the most distinguished of the phenomenological psychologists, and the most influential in making the concepts of existential psychology known in Europe and the United States.
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In 1907 Ludwig Binswanger received his medical degree from the University of Zurich.
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Ludwig Binswanger visited Freud in 1907 alongside Jung, approvingly noting his host's "distaste for all formality and etiquette, his personal charm, his simplicity, casual openness and goodness".
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Ludwig Binswanger was further influenced by existential philosophy, particularly after World War I, through the works of Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Buber, eventually evolving his own distinctive brand of existential-phenomenological psychology.
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From 1911 to 1956, Ludwig Binswanger was medical director of the sanatorium in Kreuzlingen.
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Ludwig Binswanger is considered the first physician to combine psychotherapy with existential and phenomenological ideas, a concept he expounds in his 1942 book; Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins.
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Ludwig Binswanger saw Husserl's concept of lifeworld as a key to understanding the subjective experiences of his patients, considering that "in the mental diseases we face modifications of the fundamental structure and of the structural links of being-in-the-world".
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Ludwig Binswanger ascribed schizophrenia to her, and her case is included in his 1957 book Schizophrenie.
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Ludwig Binswanger emphasised the importance of mutual recognition, as opposed to the counterdependency of destructive narcissism, as described by Herbert Rosenfeld for example.
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Ludwig Binswanger contributed much to the idea of existence in the school of existential psychology.
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Ludwig Binswanger believed that human existence was complex in that one has control over how one exists.
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Ludwig Binswanger believed that to fully understand a person, you must take into account the specificities of all three modes of existence.
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Ludwig Binswanger relates this idea to love, believing that, "it takes us beyond the world of one's own self to the world of we-hood".