General Psychopathology, Volume 2

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JHU Press, Nov 27, 1997 - Medical - 922 pages

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).

 

Contents

The Causal Connections of Psychic Life
451
d Causal events are extraconscious events
457
EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT AND OF THE BODY ON PSYCHIC LIFE
463
its meaning and possible implica
465
S2 Poisons
466
S4 Cerebral processes
478
S3 Basic patterns of meaning 340
486
a survey of this
492
possession psychic epidemics witchcraft
734
48
741
S1 Psychopathology in retrospect
747
3 Ultimate basic knowledge 354
748
EXPRESSION OF THE PSYCHE THROUGH BODY AND MOVEMENT
750
The problem of the nature of
756
MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS AND THEIR
767
S3 Psychiatry and Philosophy
768

S2 Some basic concepts
497
Foreword to the 1997 Edition by Paul R McHugh M D
507
S3 Application of Genetics to psychopathology
513
THE TOTALITY OF THE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS
524
negative results up to the present
527
Chapter
530
Examples of theory formation in psychopathology
534
S1 Defining the Concept 428
537
S3 Critique of theorising in general
547
The Conception of the Psychic Life as a Whole
556
4 Psychologising and intellectualising
561
h The psychic profile the psychogram
562
THE SYNTHESIS OF DISEASE ENTITIES NOSOLOGIE
563
S3 Symptomcomplexes syndromes
565
SI The psychophysical basis for performance 198
574
is it personality develop
582
S2 The actual flow of psychic life 208
596
S4 Classification of illnesses Diagnostic schema
604
6 Presupposition
612
THE HUMAN SPECIES EIDOLOGIE
617
Intelligence 214
622
THE MOMENTARY Wholethe STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
623
S2 Constitution
633
Methods
646
3 Race
668
THE OBJECTIVE PERFORMANCES OF PSYCHIC LIFE LEISTUNGSPSYCHO
671
d Investigation guided by the idea of the individual
674
MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS
678
Selfreflection 347
694
1 The connection between intended and unintended events 351
702
The Abnormal Psyche in Society and History
709
MEANINGFUL OBJECTIVE PHENOMENA
714
Introduction
716
SI Attention and fluctuations in consciousness 140
719
S2 Investigations into population occupation class urban rural
722
S4 Psychopathology of Mind
728
SOMATIC ACCOMPANIMENTS AND EFFECTS AS SYMPTOMS
771
g Existential philosophy and psychopathology
775
6 Neurological disturbances
776
MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS AND THEIR SPECIFIC MECHANISMS
788
Bodypsyche relationship 222
797
SI Examination of patients
825
Methods of reeducation
836
S3 Prognosis
842
48
844
S2 Sleep and hypnosis 144
848
Name Index
861
41
863
a Psychogenic reactions Erlebnisreaktionen 367
864
General Index
869
641
870
c Bodily sensations perception of bodily shape hallucinations of
875
S2 The total mental achievementthe patients general outlook
876
43
877
27
878
Phenomena of selfreflection
881
c Dreamcontents 372
884
28
885
c Rational and empathic understanding 304
886
108
889
PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGYLEISTUNGSPSYCHOLOGIE
890
S1 The study of physiognomy 259
891
44
893
d Suggestion 376
894
2 The impasse created by absolutes
896
a Subjective and objective psychology 155
899
45
900
681
901
132
907
d Classification of groups of phenomena
912
6 The individual in the world 325
913
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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.

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