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1 online resource (345 pages). |
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International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry.
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| Contents |
Cover; One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Editors' introduction; Introduction: The relevance of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathologyto current psychiatric debate; Introduction: Particular psychopathologies-lessons from Karl Jaspers'General Psychopathology for the new philosophy of psychiatry; Section 1 Historical and cultural background; 1 Jaspers in his time; 2 Phenomenology and psychopathology: in search of a method; 3 Jaspers' 'Critique of Psychoanalysis': between past and. |
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4 Impact of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology : the rangeof appraisalSection 2 Methodological issues and concepts; 5 Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology in the framework of clinicalpractice; 6 Form and content in Jaspers' psychopathology; 7 Jaspers, phenomenology, and the 'ontological difference'; 8 Jaspers on explaining and understanding in psychiatry; 9 Jaspers and neuroscience; 10 Karl Jaspers the pathographer; 11 Karl Jaspers' existential concept of psychotherapy; 12 The ethics of incomprehensibility; Section 3 Clinical concepts. |
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13 Karl Jaspers' hierarchical principle and current psychiatricclassifi cation14 On psychosis: Karl Jaspers and beyond; 15 Delusional atmosphere and the sense of unreality; 16 The self in schizophrenia: Jaspers, Schneider, and beyond; 17 Understanding mood disorders: Karl Jaspers' biologicalexistentialism; 18 Reaction and development of manic and melancholic-depressivepatients; Author index; Subject index. |
| Summary |
2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right. In 1913 Karl Jaspers published his psychiatric opus magnum - the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology). Jaspers was working at a time much like our own - with rapid expansion in the neurosciences, and responding to the philosophical challenges that this raised. The idea inspiring his book was very simple: to bring order into the chaos of abnormal psychic phenomena by rigorous description, definition and classification, and to empower psychiatry with a valid andreliable method to ass. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English. |
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Jaspers, Karl, 1883-1969. Allgemeine Psychopathologie.
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Allgemeine Psychopathologie (Jaspers, Karl) |
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Psychology, Pathological.
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Psychology, Pathological. |
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Electronic books.
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Fuchs, Thomas, 1958-
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| Added Title |
International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry |
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One century of Karl Jaspers' psychopathology |
| Other Form: |
Print version: One century of Karl Jaspers' psychopathology 9780199609253 (OCoLC)839313418 |
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1299753264 |
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9781299753266 |
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9780191506468 |
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019150646X |
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9780199609253 |
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019960925X |
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9780191742781 (ebook) |
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0191742783 |
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