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Ludwig Binswanger (1881 - 1966)
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Ludwig Binswanger (1881 - 1966)
Ludwig Binswanger was born April 13, 1881, in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. He received his M.D. degree from
the University of Zurich in 1907. He studied under Carl Jung and was involved with Freudian Society work.&
Jung introduced Binswanger to Sigmund Freud in 1907. In 1911, Binswanger
became the chief  medical
director at Bellevue Sanatorium. In the early 1920's, Binswanger cultivated an interest in Edmund
Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber, and turned increasingly towards
an existential rather than Freudian perspective.
The Application of Existentialism to Therapy
Biswanger never really formulated a theory uniquely his own, but rather incorporated existential formulations and perspectives into therapy. During such therapy, Binswanger, like other existential psychologists, made a point of discovering
their client's world view, or how the world appears to them. This included the client's sense of time, space, self, individuality, society, and other perceptual and conceptual experiences.
The essence of existential therapy is the relationship between the therapist
and the client, and the opening up of one to the other, which Biswanger referred to as an encounter. In contrast to the more formal therapy methods, existential ones, such as Biswanger's, focus much more on what it's like to see things through your eyes and to experience things as you do. As such, the introduction of existential methods to therapy made such sessions much more personal and focused on the client.
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