Description
Book SynopsisThis volume is unique in bringing together the knowledge of leading international scholars and combining three dimensions of investigation that are necessary to understand Jaspers in light of contemporary questions: history (section I), methodology (section II) and application (section III).
Table of ContentsPart 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.
