This book represents Professor Jaspers' most important contribution to the work of the 'Heidelberg School ' of which he was a member. Not only does it contain valuable clinical material but it also presents a comprehensive discussion of what is implied in the concept of 'mind'.
Translation of Allgemeine Psychopathologie, originally published in 1913.
Author(s): Karl Jaspers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1963
Language: English
Pages: 964
City: Chicago
Tags: Psychiatry, psychopathology
I. Individual psychic phenomena -- 1. Subjective phenomena of morbid psychic life (Phenomenologie) -- 2. The objective performances of psychic life (Leistungspsychologie) -- 3. Somatic accompaniments and effects as symptoms of psychic activity (Somatopsychologie) -- 4. Meaningful objective phenomena -- II. Meaningful psychic connections -- 5. Meaningful connections -- 6. Meaningful connections and their specific mechanisms -- 7. The patient's attitude to his illness -- 8. The totality of the meaningful connections (Charakterologie) -- III. The causal connections of psychic life -- 9. Effects of environment and of the body on psychic life -- 10. Heredity -- 11. The explanatory theories--their meaning and value -- IV. The conception of the psychic life as a whole -- 12. The synthesis of disease entities (Nosologie) -- 13. The human species (Eidologie) -- 14. Biographical study (Biographik) -- V. The abnormal psyche in society and history (Social and historical aspects of the psychoses and the personality-disorders) -- VI. The human being as a whole
