[Voice - speech - life satisfaction. Existential analysis in view of a medical discipline]

The author begins with a characterization of one of the fundamental problems of phenomenological existential analysis: how can results which have been arrived at by means of special scientific methods be applied to an understanding of the world we live in? Referring to the work of L. Binswanger, M. Boss, A. Jores and others, he demonstrates the possibility of a new understanding of the meaning of some voice and speech disorders, particularly hysterical aphonia, spastic dysphonia, stuttering and so-called functional development symptoms (which are found in the results of organic examinations in connection with speech disorders). He bases an adequate psychotherapy mainly on the interpretation of dreaming, of resistance and of the meaning of pathological symptoms in general.