Medard Boss

Medard Boss ( born October 4, 1903 in St. Gallen, † 21 December 1990 Zollikon ) was Swiss psychiatrist. He achieved fame by harnessing the Daseinsanalysis Martin Heidegger for Psychiatry.

Life

Medard Boss was heavily influenced by the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler while studying medicine. Boss chose as specialty psychiatry, and he set out in 1925 in an analysis with Sigmund Freud. Since 1947, Friends of Martin Heidegger with numerous correspondence, visits, holidays together and the " Zollikon " seminars which held at the home of Martin Heidegger, Medard Boss for physicians. Martin Heidegger accompanied the work of Medard Boss and the establishment of the existence analysis in an intensive manner. At the same time Medard Boss, had been appointed in his thinking and medical actions through his travels in 1956, 1958 and 1966 to India, among others by the Indian scholar Swami Gobind Kaul. 1971 Presentation of the " Great Therapist Award" by the American Psychological Association. For almost two decades, he chaired the International Society for medical psychotherapy.

Boss approach

Boss had made the approach daseinsanalysis Ludwig Binswanger, who had thought of this as a scientific foundation of psychiatry, for the therapeutic context fruitful. Boss succeeded Martin Heidegger 's approach to win, to refrain from seeking lies behind the obvious explanations for psychiatric disorders, but starting from the understanding of healthy and diseased total existence of human beings to understand this. Heidegger's analysis of existence offered for this purpose the necessary knowledge to look at the people in his Gesamtsein as comprehending a whole, which is the cause of the subject- object split itself and not due to himself, and thus the traditional mechanistic causal understanding of modern science oppose a new, the essence of people's needs nascent understanding. The existence analysis of Boss ultimately also differs from the scientific approach Binswanger, as Heidegger in the " Zollikon seminars " cleared.

Disease is understood according to this approach as an expression of the essential regular finiteness of existence. Healing is therefore understood as an encounter in the sense of being-with with others; the doctor or therapist is a partner involved in the pathological process ( see also transmission ) and helps the sick out of the confines of the given by the limits of existence restriction.