ABSTRACT.
We intend in this article to carry out a theoretical study and an experience report of the literature in which we will revisit the mode of clinical assessment of suicide in the work of Ludwig Binswanger. To do accomplish this task we’ll investigate his famous case Ellen West, carried out even before he established his daseinsanalysis. With this, we intend to highlight the question of the psychiatrist in relation to a biological perspective in psychiatry, in which suicide is understood as a symptom associated with mental diseases, this trend is still present in psychiatry. Finally we will present our own clinical experience with suicidal behavior, in which it is taken as an existential possibility. Through a brief case report, we intend to show what we consider to be an unfolding of what begins with Binswanger: the daseinsanalysis. With the designation of nowadays daseinsanalysis, we intend to return to the work of Martin Heidegger and then continue to develop a serene approach to situations of risk of suicide in clinical psychology.
Keywords:
Daseinsanalysis; clinical psychology; suicide