General psychopathology

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General psychopathology

Karl Jaspers ; translated from the German by J. Hoenig and Marian W. Hamilton ; with a new foreword by Paul R. McHugh

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

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  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2 : pbk

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Allgemeine Psychopathologie

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Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1963

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Volume

v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9780801857751

Description

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).

Table of Contents

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
Volume

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9780801858154

Description

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).

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

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