Robert Binswanger

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Robert Binswanger

Robert Binswanger (born May 12, 1850 in Tübingen , † December 6, 1910 in Kreuzlingen ) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

The son of the originating from Germany psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger the older visited Konstanz and Frauenfeld the school . He then studied in Zurich , Tübingen , Strasbourg and Basel medicine .

After employment as an assistant doctor in Strasbourg and Göttingen , he became head of the family sanatorium Bellevue in Kreuzlingen after the death of his father Ludwig Binswanger . He expanded the clinic over time and gave it an international reputation. Psychiatrists from all over Europe referred patients, such as Josef Breuer from Vienna , who sent his famous "Anna O" ( Bertha Pappenheim ) to Binswanger, the first patient to be treated psychoanalytically . The German banker Adelbert Delbrück (1822–1890), co-founder of Deutsche Bank, was one of his patients . Binswanger was a member of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its environs and was responsible for managing the Thurgau .

After Robert Binswanger's death, his son Ludwig Binswanger took over the management of the sanatorium.

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  1. Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Vol. 136, 2018, pp. 1–303, here: p. 225.