Brief biography, Ludwig Binswanger

     Ludwig Binswanger was born on 13 April 1881, at Kreuzlinge, Switzerland in a family that has a strong tradition of medicine and psychiatry. His grandfather adalalah founder Belleve Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen in 1857. His father, Robert, is director of the Sanatorium as Anna O was treated there. His uncle, Otto, is the inventor of a disease similar to Alzheimer's later known as Binswanger disease, his uncle was one of the doctors who take care of Friedrich Nietzsche.

     Ludwig Binswanger earned his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1907. He studied under Carl Jung and Jung's assistant in the Freudian Society. Like Jung, he is also more affected by Eugen Bleuler, who coined the term schizophrenia.

    Jung introduced the Binswanger to Freud in 1907. In 1911, Binswanger was appointed medical director Belleuve Sanatorium. The following year, he fell ill and had a visit from Freud who rarely stay in Vienna. Their friendship runs until Freud's death in 1939.

    In the early 1920's, Binswanger is excited at the thought of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber. This then makes him more interested in the perspective of existential rather than Freudian perspective. However, we can say in the 1930s as the early emergence of existential therapy. In 1943, he published a major book entitled Grundformen und menschlichen Erkennynis Daseins, which until then had not been translated into English.

In 1956, Binswanger ceased to be director of the Sanatorium after occupying that position for 45 years. He continues to conduct studies

and write until his death in 1966.

Sources: George Boeree

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