O existir humano como um desafio inevitável à psiquiatria

Abstract

This dissertation discusses a debate between philosophy and psychiatry. Martin Heidegger's encounters with psychiatrists, organized by the swiss psychiatrist Medard Boss and compiled in the work Zollikon Seminars, are the event giving rise to this investigation. At first, it is explicited the original way Medard Boss tried to propose the hermeneutic phenomenology of Heidegger's as a theoretical groundwork of the psychiatry that he practiced. It follows a critique of how Boss promoted this approach and, then, an investigation of two key theoretical texts of psychiatry, a contemporary of Boss and a current one, in order to understand, from this texts, how psychiatry in general is devoted to both its theoretical basis as to an approach to philosophy. Finally, it is exposed the approach that happened in the Zollikon Seminars, showing the main issues raised in these occasions by Heidegger in order to promote a decisive philosophical contribution to psychiatrists.