ABSTRACT
Working at the beginning of the twentieth century, Binswanger is probably the most significant of early existential practitioners, for he was the first one to write elaborate case histories that demonstrated not only the application of philosophical concepts to psychiatric work, but also the effectiveness of his methods. When we consider the limitations of his work, particularly the still so clearly apparent medical parameters of much of his practice, we would do well to remember that it was only because of the pioneering work of people like him that we are now able to think of human distress from a non-medical perspective.
