Ludwig Binswanger’s phenomenological clinic provides a new understanding of psychopathologies by highlighting the importance of patients’ life stories. It is divided into three phenomenological stages and shows how fertile his psychopathological studies became after he had read Being and Time and due to Husserl’s influence, which he undertook to investigate the formation of delusional experience. This article presents two clinical cases, Lola Voss and Suzanne Urban, to illustrate Ludwig Binswanger’s contribution to phenomenological psychopathology in its second and final stage.
Key words:
Binswanger; phenomenological psychopathology; clinical cases; delirium