Medard Boss

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Medard Boss (born October 4, 1903 in St. Gallen ; † December 21, 1990 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss psychiatrist. He gained fame through the use of Martin Heidegger's analysis of existence for psychiatry.

Life

Medard Boss studied medicine in Vienna, where he underwent an analysis by Sigmund Freud in 1925 , as well as at the Burghölzli Clinic in Zurich under the supervision of the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler . Friendship with Martin Heidegger since 1947 with numerous correspondence, visits, holidays together and the “Zollikon seminars” that Martin Heidegger held for doctors at Medard Boss. Martin Heidegger accompanied the work of Medard Boss and his establishment of Daseinsanalyse in an intensive way. At the same time, Medard Boss was determined in his thinking and medical actions by his trips to India in 1956, 1958 and 1966, u. a. by the Indian scholar Swami Gobind Kaul. 1971 Awarded the "Great Therapist Award" by the American Psychological Association. For almost two decades he was President of the International Society for Medical Psychotherapy.

Boss approach

Boss had made the approach of Ludwig Binswanger's analysis of existence , which he intended as a scientific foundation for psychiatry, fruitful for the therapeutic context. Boss succeeded in winning Martin Heidegger over to the approach of no longer looking for underlying explanations for psychiatric illnesses, but rather understanding them based on an understanding of the overall healthy and sick existence of people. Heidegger's analyzes of Dasein provided the necessary knowledge to consider the human being in his totality as an understanding whole, which is the cause of the subject-object split itself and which is not itself the basis, and thus the traditional mechanistic causal understanding of modern science to oppose a new understanding that does justice to the essence of man. Ultimately, Boss’s analysis of existence also differs scientifically from Binswanger’s approach, as Heidegger clarified in the “Zollikon seminars”.

According to this approach, illness is understood as an expression of the essential finitude of existence. Accordingly, healing is understood as an encounter in the sense of being with others; the doctor or therapist is involved as a partner in the disease process ( see also transference ) and helps the patient out of the confines of the limitations imposed by the limitation of existence.

See also

Fonts

  • Physical illness as a result of mental disorders of balance (1940), 6th edition, Bern 1978
  • The meaning and content of sexual perversions (1947), Munich 1967
  • The dream and its interpretation . (1953)
  • Introduction to Psychosomatic Medicine . (1954)
  • Daseinanalysis and psychoanalysis . (1957)
  • A psychiatrist's trip to India . (1959)
  • Fear of life, feelings of guilt and psychotherapeutic liberation . (1962)
  • Medical outline. Approaches to a phenomenological physiology, psychology, pathology, therapy and an appropriate preventive medicine in modern industrial society. Hans Huber, Bern a. a. 1971.
  • I dreamed it last night . (1975)
  • Practice of Psychosomatics - Illness and Life Fate , Bern 1978
  • From psychoanalysis to Daseinanalysis. Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1979.
  • From the span of the soul . (1982)
  • Martin Heidegger: Zollikon seminars . (1987)
  • Medard Boss , in: Psychotherapy in Self- Representations, Ed. Ludwig J. Pongratz, Würzburg 1973, pp. 75-106

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Medard Boss: "Outline of Medicine and Psychology - Approaches to a Phenomenological Physiology, Psychology, Pathology and Therapy and to an Appropriate Preventive Medicine", Verlag Hans Huber, Bern-Göttingen-Toronto-Seattle 1999, 3rd edition, ISBN 3 -456-83206-0 , back side
personal data
SURNAME Boss, Medard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1990
Place of death Zollikon