This article brings into question the traditional understanding of psychosomatics by taking into account the dichotomy between soma and psyche and the causal relation present in this tradition. It suggests, from a critical point-of-view, a different understanding based on Heidegger’s phenomenology-hermeneutics and Boss’ Daseinsanalysis. This article also calls into question the term ‘psychosomatics’, which preserves the duality that has to be eliminated.
Psychosomatics; existential analysis; Heidegger; Boss