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 ( Erklarende Psychologie) must be supplemented by an understanding of the "meaning-relations" experienced by human beings ( Verstehende Psychologie).
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In "General Psychopathology", perhaps his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, Jaspers critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy, arguing that the realm of the human must be supplemented by an understanding of the "meaning-relations" experienced by human beings.
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Foreword to the 1997 Edition by Paul R. McHugh, M.D.Foreword by E.W. Anderson, M.D.,F.R.C.P., D.P.M.Translator' PrefaceAuthor's PrefacesDetailed Analysis of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Individual Psychic PhenomenaChapter 1. Subjective Phenomena of Morbid Psychic Life Chapter 2. The Objective Performances of Psychic Life Chapter 3. Somatic Accompaniments and Effects as Symptoms of Psychic ActivityChapter 4. Meaningful Objective PhenomenaPart II. Meaningful Psychic ConnectionsChapter 5. Meaningful ConnectionsChapter 6. Meaningful Connections and Their Specific MechanismsChapter 7. The Patient's Attitude to His IllnessChapter 8. The Totality of the MEaningful Connections
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Karl Jaspers was only thirty when he amassed the data and expounded the methods and interpretations that give his Psychopathologie a place at the side of James' monumental Principles of Psychology. Like James, he later turned to philosophy. He certainly shared James' radically empirical spirit; he documented more systematically the challenge to the methodological imperialism to which psychopathology was subject in his day. -- Peter A. Bertocci Review of Metaphysics
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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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In his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, a founder of existentialism critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy.

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ISBN
9780801857751
Publisert
1998-01-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Johns Hopkins University Press
Vekt
737 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
594

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Biographical note

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.