General Psychopathology

In 1910, Karl Jaspers wrote a seminal essay on morbid jealousy in which he laid the foundation for the psychopathological phenomenology that through his work and the work of Hans Gruhle and Kurt Schneider, among others, would become the hallmark of the Heidelberg school of psychiatry. In General Psychopathology, his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, Jaspers critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy, arguing that in the realm of the human, the explanation of behavior through the observation of regularity and patterns in it ( Erklärende Psychologie) must be supplemented by an understanding of the "meaning-relations" experienced by human beings ( Verstehende Psychologie).

Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), a founder of existentialism, studied law and medicine at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and received his M.D. in 1909. He taught psychiatry and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, and philosophy at the University of Basel in Switzerland. His books include Psychology of World Views, and Philosophy.

Foreword to the 1997 Edition

Paul R. McHugh, M.D.

Foreword

E. W. Anderson, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.M.

Translators' Preface

Author's Prefaces

Detailed Analysis of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Individual Psychic Phenomena

I. SUBJECTIVE PHENOMENA OF MORBID PSYCHIC LIFE (PHENOMENOLOGIE)

Section 1: Abnormal psychic phenomena

Section 2: The momentary whole the state of consciousness

II. THE OBJECTIVE PERFORMANCES OF PSYCHIC LIFE (LEISTUNGSPSYCHOLOGIE)

Section 1: Individual performances

Section 2: The total performance

III. SOMATIC ACCOMPANIMENTS AND EFFECTS AS SYMPTOMS OF PSYCHIC ACTIVITY (SOMATOPSYCHOLOGIE)

IV. MEANINGFUL OBJECTIVE PHENOMENA

Section 1: Expression of the psyche through body and movement (Ausdruckspsychologie)

Section 2: The individual's personal world (Weltpsychologie)

Section 3: The psyche objectified in knowledge and achievement (Werkpsychologie)

Part Two: Meaningful Psychic Connections (Verstehende Psychologie)

V. MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS

VI. MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS AND THEIR SPECIFIC MECHANISMS

Section 1: Normal mechanisms

Section 2: Abnormal mechanisms

VII. THE PATIENT'S ATTITUDE TO HIS ILLNESS

VIII. THE TOTALITY OF THE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS (CHARAKTERO-LOGIE)

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