General Psychopathology,9780801858154

General Psychopathology

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780801858154
ISBN10: 0801858151
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-11-01
Publisher(s): JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS
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Summary

In 1910, Karl Jaspers wrote a seminal essay on morbid jealousy in which he laid the foundation for the psychopathological phenomenology that through his work and the work of Hans Gruhle and Kurt Schneider, among others, would become the hallmark of the Heidelberg school of psychiatry. In General Psychopathology, his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, Jaspers critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy, arguing that in the realm of the human, the explanation of behavior through the observation of regularity and patterns in it ( Erklärende Psychologie) must be supplemented by an understanding of the "meaning-relations" experienced by human beings ( Verstehende Psychologie).

Author Biography

Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), a founder of existentialism, studied law and medicine at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and received his M.D. in 1909. He taught psychiatry and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, and philosophy at the University of Basel in Switzerland. His books include Psychology of World Views, and Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Part Three: The Causal Connections of Psychic Life (Erklarende Psychologie)
IX. EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT AND OF THE BODY ON PSYCHIC LIFE
X. HEREDITY
XI. THE EXPLANATORY THEORIES--THEIR MEANING AND VALUE
Part Four: The Conception of the Psychic Life as a Whole
XII. THE SYNTHESIS OF DISEASE ENTITIES (NOSOLOGIE)
XIII. THE HUMAN SPECIES (EIDOLOGIE)
XIV. BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY (BIOGRAPHIK)
Part Five: The Abnormal Psyche in Society and History (Social and historical aspects of the psychoses and the personality-disorders)
Part Six: The Human Being as a Whole
Appendix
1 Examination of patients
2 The function of therapy
3 Prognosis
4 The history of psychopathology as a science
Name Index
General Index

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