Heidegger and Binswanger: Just a Misunderstanding?

The Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger was one of the first psychiatrists who used in his medical approach the Daseinsanalyse of Martin Heidegger to understand the mental disorders of his patients. However, as it is well known, one of the most critical interlocutors of Binswanger was Heidegger himself. Rebuilding the relationship between Heidegger and Binswanger on the grounds of analysis of human being, the aim of this article is to verify if Heidegger's approach can give to psychoanalysis and psychiatry its most radical reorientation by providing a new paradigm for understanding human being and the pathologies of existence.