Kurt Binswanger

Kurt Binswanger

Kurt Binswanger (born March 15, 1887 in Basel , † February 28, 1981 in Zurich ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst . He came from the originally Bavarian Binswanger family , from which several well-known psychiatrists emerged. He was a grandson of Ludwig Binswanger the Elder. Ä. , the founder of the Bellevue sanatorium in Kreuzlingen , Switzerland , and cousin of the founder of Daseinanalysis Ludwig Binswanger .

Life

Binswanger studied medicine at the Universities of Lausanne , Munich and Basel and received his doctorate in Basel in 1914. He then worked as an assistant at the pathological institute at the University of Breslau and in the neurological department at the Eppendorf University Medical Center in Hamburg and took over representation in the practice of his uncle Otto Binswanger in Jena . Binswanger received his psychiatric training from Eugen Bleuler at the Burghölzli Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich. From 1918 he worked for almost ten years as a senior physician at the Bellevue Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen. From 1927 he practiced as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with his own practice in Zurich, which he successfully ran for over half a century.

For Binswanger, the decisive impulse for his psychotherapeutic work was the encounter with Carl Gustav Jung ; The latter's analytical psychology gave him an understanding of the psychological processes in both healthy and sick people, which he himself then deepened and disseminated. The founded in 1948 to train analysts C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, he served many years as a training analyst and lecturer and member of the - of CG Jung, Carl Alfred Meier and Kurt Binswanger and Jolande Jacobi and Liliane Frey-Rohn formed - Curatoriums. He also worked as a lecturer at the University of Zurich and was the first President of the Swiss Society for Analytical Psychology (SGAP). For Binswanger, however, the focus was always on work in psychotherapeutic practice.

Fonts

• André Salathé: Binswanger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• For the clinical and anatomical differential diagnosis of progressive paralysis. Brin & Cie, Basel 1914 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1914).
• Psychological and psychiatric questions on the Van Gogh problem. In: Studies on the analytical psychology of CG Jung, commemorative publication for the 80th birthday of CG Jung. Rascher, Zurich 1955.
• The healing path of analytical psychology CG Jung. In: Leopold Szondi (Hrsg.): Heilwege der Tiefenpsychologie. Hans Huber publishing house, Bern / Stuttgart 1956.

Web links

• History of the C.-G.-Jung-Institute Zurich

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 4, 1981.