Aby Warburg spent three years being treated by the famous psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger. Historiography and philosophy perceive the Swiss psychiatrist as the (co)founder of humanistic psychology, based on listening, empathy, an encounter of the doctor and patient, as well as ”existential communication” between them. Meanwhile, the treated and ultimately cured Warburg showed no signs of a return to health that would also involve his physician. Quite possibly, the reason for this state of things was the fact that Binswanger had never truly engaged his ”I”...
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