Boss’ and Binswanger's health anthropologies and existential philosophies

Abstract This article highlights central background themes in existential phenomenology, and gives a brief introduction to Boss and Binswanger within a perspective where man and fellow man, dialogue, participation and communication, the lived body, and the surroundings are seen as one interrelated unity. Boss and Binswanger's existential phenomenologies are to my knowledge some of the few therapy concepts that integrate theory and practice concerning every aspect of human existence into one inter-subjective biopsychosocial entity. This introduction to Binswanger's Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt in combination with Boss so called existentials offers a systematic way for counselors, therapists, and people working with rehabilitation to understand why any client regardless of the character of his or her symptoms (somatic, psychological, or psychiatric) is also always challenged, more or less, by life and existence on a more existential level. This is where the rehabilitation healing powers of an existential ...