General Psychopathology, Volume 2In 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). |
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I had the good fortune to encounter this work when I was a psychiatric resident 40 years ago at Temple University. Karl Jaspers had a better grasp of psychic life than anyone else I read and than all but a few clinicians I have known. His work will be studied and appreciated by front line psychiatrists long after DSM is forgotten. I am just tickled to have lived long enough to be able to carry the digital version with me as I travel to various offices!
William S. Greenfield, M.D.
Contents
Speech 185 | 451 |
Causal events are extraconscious events 457 | 457 |
Hysteria 401 | 459 |
EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT AND OF THE BODY ON PSYCHIC LIFE | 463 |
Poisons | 466 |
Somatic findings in psychosis 246 | 473 |
Cerebral processes | 478 |
Basic patterns of meaning 340 | 486 |
The individual life as a biological event | 681 |
b Typical course of an illness attack phase period process | 687 |
Selfreflection 347 | 694 |
i The connection between intended and unintended events 351 | 702 |
The Abnormal Psyche in Society and History | 709 |
Introduction 251 | 716 |
Attention and fluctuations in consciousness 140 | 719 |
Investigations into population occupation class urban rural | 722 |
Chapter | 497 |
Introduction | 507 |
Application of Genetics to psychopathology | 513 |
MEANINGFUL OBJECTIVE PHENOMENA | 519 |
4 Return to empirical statistics of a temporary character | 528 |
THE EXPLANATORY THEORIESTHEIR MEANING AND VALUE | 530 |
Examples of theory formation in psychopathology 534 | 534 |
The sources of our ability to understand and the task of | 539 |
b Psychopathology and psychology 3 | 546 |
Critique of theorising in general | 547 |
The Conception of the Psychic Life as a Whole | 556 |
h The psychic profile the psychogram | 562 |
THE SYNTHESIS OF DISEASE ENTITIES NOSOLOGIE | 563 |
Basic classifications in the total field of psychic illness | 573 |
The psychophysical basis for performance 198 | 574 |
Symptomcomplexes syndromes | 582 |
Connections with a meaningful content 317 | 586 |
Some basic concepts 6 | 589 |
The actual flow of psychic life 208 | 596 |
Classification of illnesses Diagnostic schema | 604 |
The individual in the world 35 | 607 |
Fruitful significance of the discrepancies | 613 |
THE HUMAN SPECIES EIDOLOGIE | 617 |
Sex constitution Race | 621 |
Intelligence 214 | 622 |
Awareness of objects | 623 |
c Sexual disorders | 630 |
Race | 668 |
THE OBJECTIVE PERFORMANCES OF PSYCHIC LIFE LEISTUNGSPSYCHO | 671 |
Investigation guided by the idea of the individual 674 | 674 |
MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS | 678 |
Psychopathology of Mind | 728 |
possession psychic epidemics witchcraft | 734 |
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 man | 756 |
MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS AND THEIR | 767 |
Psychiatry and Philosophy | 768 |
The concept of health and illness | 779 |
MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS AND THEIR SPECIFIC MECHANISMS | 788 |
5 The meaning of medical practice | 790 |
Prejudice and presupposition 16 | 813 |
Appendix | 825 |
fc Working through the effects of acute psychoses 416 | 841 |
Prognosis | 842 |
Sleep and hypnosis 144 | 848 |
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