Promotional Information

As long as psychiatric diagnosis and treatment rest on psychopathological investigation, the continuing improvement and sharpening of this tool of investigation must remain a prime concern to psychiatrists. This book is a guide to that technique; still irreplaceable, much of it is still as fresh as the day it was written and still a lively stimulus to others yet to come. -- E. W. Anderson, foreword to the 1963 English translation of General Psychopathology

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 1997 Edition by Paul R. McHugh, M.D.
Foreword by E.W. Anderson, M.D.,F.R.C.P., D.P.M.
Translator' Preface
Author's Prefaces
Detailed Analysis of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Individual Psychic Phenomena
Chapter 1. Subjective Phenomena of Morbid Psychic Life
Chapter 2. The Objective Performances of Psychic Life
Chapter 3. Somatic Accompaniments and Effects as Symptoms of Psychic Activity
Chapter 4. Meaningful Objective Phenomena
Part II. Meaningful Psychic Connections
Chapter 5. Meaningful Connections
Chapter 6. Meaningful Connections and Their Specific Mechanisms
Chapter 7. The Patient's Attitude to His Illness
Chapter 8. The Totality of the MEaningful Connections

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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