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Book SynopsisIn "General Psychopathology", perhaps his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, Jaspers critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy, arguing that the realm of the human must be supplemented by an understanding of the "meaning-relations" experienced by human beings.
Trade ReviewKarl Jaspers was only thirty when he amassed the data and expounded the methods and interpretations that give his Psychopathologie a place at the side of James' monumental Principles of Psychology. Like James, he later turned to philosophy. He certainly shared James' radically empirical spirit; he documented more systematically the challenge to the methodological imperialism to which psychopathology was subject in his day. -- Peter A. Bertocci Review of Metaphysics
Table of ContentsForeword 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
