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Overview

In his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, a founder of existentialism critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy.

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).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801857751
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/27/1997
Series: General Psychopathology Series , #1
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 594
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.24(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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

Volume 2
Part III. The Casual Connections of Psychic Life
Chapter 9. Effects of Environment and of the Body on Psychic Life
Chapter 10. Heredity
Chapter 11. The Explanatory Theories—Their Meaning and Value
Part IV. The Conception of the Psychic Life as a Whole
Chapter 12. The Synthesis of Disease Entities
Chapter 13. The Human Species
Chapter 14. Biographical Study
Part V. The Abnormal Psyche in Society and History
(Social and historical aspects of the psychoses and the personality-disorder)
Part VI. The Human Being as a Whole
Appendix
1. Examination of patients
2. The funstion of therapy
3. Prognosis
4. The history of psychopathology as a science
Name Index
General Index

What People are Saying About This

E. W. Anderson

As long as psychiatric diagnosis and treatment rest on psychopathological investigation, the continuing improvement and sharpening of this tool of investigation must remain a prime concern to psychiatrists. This book is a guide to that technique; still irreplaceable, much of it is still as fresh as the day it was written and still a lively stimulus to others yet to come.

E. W. Anderson, foreword to the 1963 English translation of General Psychopathology

From the Publisher

As long as psychiatric diagnosis and treatment rest on psychopathological investigation, the continuing improvement and sharpening of this tool of investigation must remain a prime concern to psychiatrists. This book is a guide to that technique; still irreplaceable, much of it is still as fresh as the day it was written and still a lively stimulus to others yet to come.
—E. W. Anderson, foreword to the 1963 English translation of General Psychopathology

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