Medard Boss (* 4 October 1903 in pc. Gallen; "† 21 December 1990 in Zollikon) was psychiatrist and physician, who made the existence analysis Martin Heideggers for the psychiatry usable.

While its medicine study strongly of the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler affects, he selected the psychiatry as special field and went 1925 into the analysis with Sigmund Freud. Since 1947 friendship to Martin Heidegger with numerous exchange of letters, attendance, common holidays and "„the Zollikoner seminars "“, which Martin Heidegger in the house of Medard Boss regarded as physicians. Martin Heidegger accompanied the work of Medard Boss and its establishment of the existence analysis in intensive way. Medard Boss had been determined at the same time by its journeys 1956, 1958 and 1966 to India in his thinking and medical acting, among other things by the Indian scholar Swami Gobind Kaul. 1971 award "„of the Great Therapist Award "“by the American Psychological Association.

Boss beginning

Boss had made the beginning of the existence analysis Ludwig Binswangers, which was meant from this as scientific founding of the psychiatry, for the therapeutic context fruitful. Boss was to be won it gelungem Martin Heidegger for the beginning not to look for no more for behind the things explanations for psychiatric illnesses but on the basis of understanding the healthy and ill total existence of humans to understand these. Heideggers analyses of the existence offered for this the necessary realization to regard humans in its total its as understanding whole to that the cause that subject - object splitting is and it is not the basis and thus the traditional mechanistically causal understanding of the modern sciences an alternative explanation model to oppose. The existence analysis of Boss differs finally also scientifically from the beginning Binswangers, how Heidegger in "„the Zollikoner seminars clarified "“.

Illness is understood in accordance with this beginning as a sign of the elementary finiteness of the existence, as the impossibility of existing shows up. Healing is therefore understood as meeting in the sense of the with Seins with other one, which is physician or a therapist as partner into the disease happening merged (see also transmission) and helps the patient from the tightness of the restriction given by the limitness of the existence.

See also: Ludwig Binswanger, Martin Heidegger, existence, existence analysis, Psychotherapie, psychoanalysis

Literature

• Boss, Medard: Sketch of the medicine and psychology. (1971)
• Boss, Medard: The dream and its interpretation. (1953)
• Boss, Medard: It dreamed me past night. (1975)
• Boss, Medard: Introduction to the psychosomatische medicine. (1954)
• Boss, Medard: Martin Heidegger: Zollikoner of seminars. (1987)
• Boss, Medard: India travel of a psychiatrist. (1959)
• Boss, Medard: Psychoanalysis and existence analytics. (1957)
• Boss, Medard: From the psychoanalysis to the existence analysis. (1979)
• Boss, Medard: Of the span of the soul. (1982)
• Boss, Medard: Fear of life, debt feelings and psychotherapeutische release. (1962)
• Boss, Medard: Sense and content of the sexual Perversionen. (1962)

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