Eugene Minkowski
Eugene Minkowski · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychiatrist and pioneer of phenomenological psychopathology
1885, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 1972, Paris, France
Germany · Switzerland · France
Eugene Minkowski is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychiatrist and pioneer of phenomenological psychopathology
Eugène Minkowski was a French psychiatrist who, with Ludwig Binswanger, founded phenomenological psychopathology, applying the philosophies of Bergson and Husserl to mental illness and introducing the ideas of 'lived time' and a loss of 'vital contact with reality' in schizophrenia. Born into a wealthy Polish-Jewish family in Saint Petersburg, he trained in Germany and Switzerland and settled in Paris. He was actively Jewish and led relief work for Jewish children during and after the Holocaust.
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Psychiatrist and pioneer of phenomenological psychopathology
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