General Psychopathology

Karl Jaspers, J. Hoenig, Marian W. Hamilton , Marian W. Hamilton

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Johns Hopkins University Press
22 January 1998

Psychology; Pathology; Psychiatry

In 1910, Karl Jaspers wrote an 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 this text, regarded as 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 behaviour 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).

By: Karl Jaspers
Translated by: J. Hoenig, Marian W. Hamilton, Marian W. Hamilton
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780801858154
ISBN 10: 0801858151
Pages: 594
Publication Date: 22 January 1998
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for General Psychopathology

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 *