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Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy and Psychopathology || Karl Jaspers on Primary Delusional Experiences of Schizophrenics: His Concept of Delusion Compared to That of the DSM

✍ Scribed by Fuchs, Thomas; Breyer, Thiemo; Mundt, Christoph


Book ID
121763516
Publisher
Springer New York
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
913 KB
Edition
2014
Category
Article
ISBN
1461488788

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✦ Synopsis


This book is based on a congress evaluating Jaspers' basic psychopathological concepts and their anthropological roots in light of modern research paradigms. It provides a definition of delusion, his concept of "limit situation" so much challenged by trauma research, and his methodological debate. We are approaching the anniversary of Jaspers seminal work General Psychopathology in 1913. The Centre of Psychosocial Medicine of the University with its Psychiatric Hospital where Jaspers wrote this influential volume as a 29 year old clinical assistant hosted a number of international experts familiar with his psychiatric and philosophical work. This fruitful interdisciplinary discussion seems particularly important in light of the renewed interest in Jaspers’ work, which will presumably increase towards the anniversary year 2013. This 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).