ABSTRACT
Minkowski, who worked in France as a psychiatrist at the beginning of the twentieth century, was born in Poland. He was one of the first Frenchmen to apply phenomenological ideas to therapeutic practice. He did use some of Husserl’s ideas and acknowledged the influence of Scheler, but not of Heidegger. He applied a phenomenological method of observation and description and established a system of structural analysis of experience. He focused his research on psychopathology (1966) and on schizophrenia in particular (1927) and was much influenced by the work of the philosopher Henri Bergson (1889, 1896, 1901).
