Binswanger applied Heidegger’s philosophical ideastopsychiatryandpsychology.Binswangercalled his approach to psychotherapy Daseinanalysis, or the study of a person’s approach to being-in-the-world. Binswanger divided Dasein into the Umwelt (the physical world), the Mitwelt (the social world), and the Eigenwelt (the person’s self-perceptions). AccordingtoBinswanger,eachpersonembraceslife’s experiences through a Weltanschauung, or world- design, which is a general orientation toward life. Binswanger attempted to understand his patients’ world-designs;ifapatient’sworld-designwasproving tobeineffective,hewouldsuggestalternative,poten- tially more effective ones. Like Heidegger, Binswanger believed that the circumstances into which one was thrown place limits on personal free- dom.ThrownnesscreateswhatBinswangercalledthe ground ofexistence fromwhich onehas to begin the process of becoming by exercising one’s freedom. According to Binswanger, each person attempts to riseabovehisorhergroundofexistenceandtoattain being-beyond-the-world—that is, to rise above cur- rentcircumstancesbytransformingthemthroughfree choice.