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KMID : 0607619920060010022
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Psychotherapy
1992 Volume.6 No. 1 p.22 ~ p.24
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In memory of Medard Boss from the viewpoint of Psychotherapeutic Practice
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Trenkel, Arthur
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Abstract
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As it is known, the significance and effect of Medard Boss found its chief expression in his endeavors to provide an adequate his endeavors scientific approach to the human realities underlying all psychological and psychopathological concerns. He found this approach and the respective language in the thoughts of the philosopher Martin Heidegger, which he felt were the only worthy basis for understanding his experiential psycho therapeutical knowledge gathered through experience. Consequently, Boss dedicated himself to the task of working out and establishing the validity of his findings as an adequate basis of the knowledge on psychology, psychopathology and, in particular psychotherapy. With the same radicalism.
Apart from the theoretical-philosophical criticism he made of the fundamental inappropriateness of this objective way of thinking in view of the unique nature of the human being, he also made concrete application of his phenomenological or Daseinsanalytical method of perception to various issues of psychotherapeutical practice. In his post doctoral thesis for example he examined the subject of sexual perversions from an Daseinsanalytical viewpoint ;he also worked in detail on the classical body-soul conflict and he made a particular body-soul conflict and he made a particularly thorough examination of the phenomenon of dreams and their significance in therapeutical practice.
In numerous books, lectures and essays,
with which Heidegger had at the beginning Boss continuously, and often highly of the century based his philosophy on a deeper reality, Boss now separated the polemically, embraced the opposite of all existing theories in the field of psychotherrespective understanding of human nature from the accepted objectifying and generalisapy. In his comprehensive principal work entitled "Grundriss der Medizin" ("An outlining theories in psychiatry and psychology. of Medicine"), he even attempted to find an In doing so, he concentrated in particular the evidence that even the theories of appropriate basis for all medical practice in on the light of his phenomenological approach.
Freudian psychoanalysis are constructed on the basis of Cartesian philosophy and The written legacy of Medard Boss is therefore lack the specifically human self considerable, but his books, essays and world experience published lectures represent only the visible, to be open" ("Vernehmen-kdnnen and Ans- Erscheinungsstatte") (Boss). In the theoretiprechbarsein") . As a result of the stimulus cal field of knowledge of Western medicine provided by Boss, many therapists have this truth has become forgotten, apparently opened their "phenomenological eye" and due to methodological thinking yet it can be continue in their daily practice to train it, accessible as a reality in the practical thereby gaining from the corresponding experience of the psychotherapist. Thus, it insights it offers, is from this practice that is derived this effect is of great significance, and probably the most living approach to the has certainly not yet been concluded. It work of Medard Boss, as well as probably remains, however, just as hidden as the most meaningful bridge for transcultural basic dimension of practical reality remains exchange with the living tradition of the hidden for Cartesian scientific thought. In East. Heidegger´s philosophy, this dimension is
known as the "truth of Being ness" ("die Dr. Med. Arthur Trenkel Wahrheit des Seins"), for which human Kramgasse 47 existence is the "open and perceiving place CH-3011 Beru of appearance" ("offense and vernehmende Switzerland
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