Ludwig Binswanger
Ludwig Binswanger | |
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Portrait of Binswanger by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | |
| Born | 13 April 1881 Kreuzlingen, Switzerland |
| Died | 5 February 1966 (aged 84) Kreuzlingen, Switzerland |
| Known for | Daseinsanalysis |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
Ludwig Binswanger (/ˈbɪnzwæŋɡər/; Swiss Standard German: [ˈbɪnsvaŋər]; 13 April 1881 – 5 February 1966) was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of existential psychology. His parents were Robert Johann Binswanger (1850–1910) and Bertha Hasenclever (1847–1896). Robert's German-Jewish father Ludwig "Elieser" Binswanger (1820–1880) was founder, in 1857, of the Bellevue Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen. Robert's brother Otto Binswanger (1852–1929) was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Jena.
Ludwig Binswanger is the most prominent phenomenological psychologist and the most influential in making the concepts of existential psychology known in Europe and the United States.