Description
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 ContentsVolume 2
Part III. The Casual Connections of Psychic Life
Chapter 9. Effects of Environment and of the Body on Psychic Life
Chapter 10. Heredity
Chapter 11. The Explanatory Theories—Their Meaning and Value
Part IV. The Conception of the Psychic Life as a Whole
Chapter 12. The Synthesis of Disease Entities
Chapter 13. The Human Species
Chapter 14. Biographical Study
Part V. The Abnormal Psyche in Society and History
(Social and historical aspects of the psychoses and the personality-disorder)
Part VI. The Human Being as a Whole
Appendix
1. Examination of patients
2. The funstion of therapy
3. Prognosis
4. The history of psychopathology as a science
Name Index
General Index
