Heidegger suffered a full psychological breakdown in 1946

Evidence

In early 1946, he had a complete psychological breakdown, and in February was taken into the Haus Baden sanatorium in Badenweiler to recover. It must have looked for a while as though Heidegger was going the way of his heroes Hölderlin and Trakl. But, with treatment from psychiatrists who were already primed in his philosophical language and style of thought, he slowly improved. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 577

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the biographical strand of this narrative history; the psychiatrists primed in his philosophy treating him is a curious echo of how his philosophy shaped even medical practice. — connects to: Heidegger’s philosophical intensity reflected a threatening inner landscape — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 192

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s philosophical intensity reflected a threatening inner landscape #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 192