Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy and Psychopathology

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Fuchs, Thomas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Breyer, Thiemo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mundt, Christoph (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Psychotherapy.; History of Psychology.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

How much of mental illness is in the brain? The mind? Why does it matter? A century after his groundbreaking General Psychopathology, the work of Karl Jaspers remains relevant and timely. Then, as now, advances in neuroscience are revolutionizing psychology, resulting in a precarious balance between...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: History and Methodology
• Psychopathology and the Modern Age. Karl Jaspers reads Hölderlin
• Hermeneutical and dialectical thinking in psychiatry and the contribution of Karl Jaspers
• Phenomenological intuitionism and its psychiatric impact
• The reception of Jaspers’ General Psychopathology outside of Europe
• Brain mythologies: Jaspers’ critique of reductionism from a current perspective
• Karl Jaspers’ criticism of anthropological and phenomenological psychiatry
• Perspectival knowing: Karl Jaspers and Ronald N. Giere
• Part II: Psychopathology and Psychotherapy.-Karl Jaspers on primary delusional experiences of schizophrenics: his concept of delusion compared to that of the DSM
• Delusion and double book-keeping
• Jaspers on feelings and affective states
• Jaspers’ concept of “limit situation”: extensions and therapeutic applications
• Psychopathology and psychotherapy in Jaspers’ work and today’s perspectives on psychotherapy in psychiatry.