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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Volume 2Part III. The Casual Connections of Psychic LifeChapter 9. Effects of Environment and of the Body on Psychic LifeChapter 10. HeredityChapter 11. The Explanatory Theories—Their Meaning and ValuePart IV. The Conception of the Psychic Life as a WholeChapter 12. The Synthesis of Disease EntitiesChapter 13. The Human SpeciesChapter 14. Biographical StudyPart 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 WholeAppendix1. Examination of patients2. The funstion of therapy3. Prognosis4. The history of psychopathology as a scienceName IndexGeneral Index
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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.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780801858154
Publisert
1998-01-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Johns Hopkins University Press
Vekt
680 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
594
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