Overview
- Historically reconstructs and examines Jaspers' breakthrough work General Psychopathology
- Systematically investigates the methodological novelties of Jaspers' approach
- Offers new perspectives for the analysis of consciousness and its disorders
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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History and Methodology
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Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Keywords
- Hermeneutical and dialectical thinking
- Karl Jaspers
- Phenomenological intuitionism
- Ronald N. Giere
- anthropological and phenomenological psychiatry
- biological existentialism
- delusional experiences of schizophrenics
- hermeneutic and dialectic thinking
- intersubjectivity
- methodological pluralism
- nosology
- phenomenological psychiatry
- phenomenological psychopathology
- phenomenological psychotherapy
- psychopathology and the Modern Age
- self and other
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
PROF. DR. DR. THOMAS FUCHS is the Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg. He is the head of the research unit “Phenomenological Psychopathol-ogy and Psychotherapy”, coordinator of the EU Marie Curie Research Training Network TESIS (Towards an Embodied Theory of Intersubjectivity) and the Volkswagen Foundation Research Project “The Brain as a Mediating Organ”, as well as co-director of the Interdisciplinary Forum for Biomedicine and Cultural Studies (IFBK). His publications include: Mechanization of the Heart (Rochester University Press, 2001), The Embodied Self (Schattauer, 2010) and Ecology of the Brain (Oxford University Press, under contract).
DR. THIEMO BREYER is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and cognitive science at the Clinic for General Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, lecturer at the University of Freiburg and research associate at the Husserl Archive Freiburg. He is the head of the research unit “Anthro-pology of Intersubjectivity”, funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation. His publications in-clude: On the Topology of Cultural Memory (Königshausen & Neumann, 2007), Attentionalität und Intentionalität (Fink, 2011) and Synchrony and Embodied Interaction (Springer, under con-tract).
PROF. DR. EM. CHRISTOPH MUNDT is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Heidel-berg, where he held a chair in psychiatry and was clinical director of the Department of General Psychiatry and the polyclinic. His publications include: Interpersonal Factors in the Origin and Course of Affective Disorders (Gaskell, 1996), Psychotherapie in der Psychiatrie (Springer, 1997) and Konzeptuelle Weiterentwicklungen im Umkreis der strukturdynamischen Psychopa-thologie (Thieme, 2004).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy and Psychopathology
Editors: Thomas Fuchs, Thiemo Breyer, Christoph Mundt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8878-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8877-4
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4481-1
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8878-1
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 188
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Psychology, Psychotherapy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences