Ellen West was a troubled patient of Dr. Ludwig Binswanger who suffered from anorexia nervosa and possibly other mental illness. She became a famous example of existential analysis who committed suicide at age 33 by poisoning.
Read more about Ellen West: Life, Death, Existential Psychology and Humanistic Psychology, Poetry
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