General Psychopathology

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5775-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 594 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 892 g

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaspers, Karl

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hoenig, J.

Hamilton, Marian W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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' Preface
Author's Prefaces
Detailed Analysis of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Individual Psychic Phenomena
Chapter 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 Activity
Chapter 4. Meaningful Objective Phenomena
Part II. Meaningful Psychic Connections
Chapter 5. Meaningful Connections
Chapter 6. Meaningful Connections and Their Specific Mechanisms
Chapter 7. The Patient's Attitude to His Illness
Chapter 8. The Totality of the MEaningful Connections

Über Autor(innen)

Jaspers, Karl
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.

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. Paul R. McHugh, M.D., is Psychiatrist-in-Chied at the Johns Hopkins Medical Instiutions and the coauthor of The Perspectives of Psychiatry.