#Swiss #psychiatrist who founded #ExistentialAnalysis.
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He was born into a family of noted #psychiatrists, including his father #Ludwig, his grandfather #Robert and his great-uncle #Otto.
He first met Carl Jung while working at the psychiatric hospital in Zurich. Their visit together with #SigmundFreud in Vienna (1907) led to Binswanger taking up #psychoanalysis. He developed an interest in the ideas of #Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber, and his perspective evolved more along existential than Freudian lines.
He applied the principles of existential #phenomenology, especially as expressed by Heidegger, to #psychotherapy, and can be said to have been the first truly #existential #therapist.
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