Ludwig Binswanger and Bleuler’s "spiritual figure"

Journal title RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA
Author/s Aurelio Molaro
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/1
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 77-90 File size 230 KB
DOI 10.3280/RSF2022-001004
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By a brief and focused analysis of published and unpublished documents, this paper investigates the complex of personal, intellectual and scientific relationship between Ludwig Binswanger and his "revered teacher and friend" Eugen Bleuler from 1907 to 1939. As known, Binswanger’s career in psychiatry began at the "Burghölzli" Clinic in Zurich. Although Binswanger showed particular admiration for Bleuler’s "spiritual figure" and for some of his specific theoretical innovations in the clinical-structural sense, he did not fail to criticize some features of his conception of human nature, like the determinist monism conveyed in his 1921 Naturgeschichte der Seele.

Keywords: Ludwig Binswanger, Eugen Bleuler, History of Psychiatry, Biologism, Naturalism, Phenomenology

Aurelio Molaro, Ludwig Binswanger e la "figura spirituale" di Bleuler in "RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA" 1/2022, pp 77-90, DOI: 10.3280/RSF2022-001004