Eugène Minkowski, aux sources de la psychopathologie phénoménologique

Abstract

E. Minkowski (1885–1972) played a great part at the beginnings of the phenomenological psychiatry and gave this new trend the opportunity to reach France in the early 1920's. Its works, based on Bergson's philosophy and a careful clinical observation, have a very individual tone, but remain faithful to the phenomenological approach. For him, psychopathology is the psychology of pathology and not the pathology of psychology.