General Psychopathology
$113.85
- Paperback
594 pages
- Release Date
14 November 1997
Summary
In 1910, Karl Jaspers wrote an 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 this text, regarded as 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 behaviour th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780801857751 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0801857759 |
| Author: | Karl Jaspers, J. Hoenig, Marian W. Hamilton |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 594 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 1997 |
| Weight: | 844g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 438mm x 161mm |
| Series: | General Psychopathology |
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Karl 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
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Karl Jaspers
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.
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