Giovanni Stanghellini and Thomas Fuchs: Editors' Introduction
Mario Maj: Foreword: The Relevance of Karl Jaspers' General
Psychopathology to Current Psychiatric Debate
K. W. M. (Bill) Fulford: Foreword: Particular Psychopathologies -
Lessons from Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology for the new
philosophy of psychiatry
Acknowledgements
Giovanni Stanghellini and Thomas Fuchs: General Introduction
Setcion One: Historical and Cultural Background
1: Federico Leoni: Jaspers in his Time
2: Osborne P. Wiggins and Michael Alan Schwartz: Phenomenology and
Psychopathology: In Search of a Method
3: Mario Rossi Monti: Jaspers' Critique for Psychoanalysis: between
Past and Future
4: Christoph Mundt: Impact of Jaspers` General Psychopathology: The
Range of Appraisal
Section Two: Methodological Issues and Concepts
5: Otto Doerr-Zegers and Héctor Pelegrina-Cetrán: Jaspers' General
Psychopathology in the Framework of Clinical Practice
6: Chris Walker: Form and Content In Jaspers' Psychopathology
7: Louis A. Sass: Jaspers, Phenomenology, and the 'ontological
Difference'
8: Christoph Hoerl: Jaspers on Explaining and Understanding in
Psychiatry
9: Matthew R. Broome: Jaspers and Neuroscience
10: Matthias Bormuth: Jaspers the Pathographer
11: Jann E. Schlimme: Jaspers' Existential Concept of
Psychotherapy
12: Giovanni Stanghellini: The Ethics of Incomprehensibility
Section Three: Clinical Concepts
13: Henning Sass and Umberto Volpe: Jaspers' Hierarchical Principle
and Current Psychiatric Classification
14: Josef Parnas: On Psychosis: Karl Jaspers and Beyond
15: Matthew Ratcliffe: Delusional Atmosphere and the Sense of
Unreality
16: Thomas Fuchs: The Self in Schizophrenia: Jaspers, Schneider and
beyond
17: S. Nassir Ghaemi: Understanding Mood Disorders: Jaspers'
Biological Existentialism
18: Alfred Kraus: Reaction and development of Manic and
Melancholic-Depressive Patients
Giovanni Stanghellini, MD and MD honoris causa, psychiatrist and
psychotherapist, is full professor of Dynamic Psychology and
Psychopathology at "G. d'Annunzio" University in Chieti (Italy). He
is founding chair of the European Psychiatric Association section
"Philosophy and Psychiatry " and of the World Psychiatric
Association section "Psychiatry and the Humanities". He also
founded, with Bill Fulford and John Sadler, the International
Network for Philosophy and
Psychiatry. He is co-editor of the OUP series International
Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry.
He has written extensively on the philosophical foundations of
psychiatry. Among his books published by OUP are Nature and
Narrative (with KWM Fulford, K. Morris and JZ Sadler, Eds.),
Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies, Emotions and Personhood,
(with R. Rosfort), and the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and
Psychiatry (with KWM Fulford et al, Eds.). Thomas Fuchs, MD, PhD,
psychiatrist, psychotherapist and philosopher, is Karl
Jaspers-Professor of
Philosophy and Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg. He heads
the phenomenology section at the Psychiatric Department, University
of Heidelberg, and the philosophy section of the German Psychiatric
Association (DGPPN). He is
co-ordinator of the interdisciplinary European Research Project
"TESIS" on Embodied Intersubjectivity (2011-2015, www.tesis.rtn-eu
`This is an excellent and thought-provoking book on the most
important influence on modern psychiatry. I highly recommend it to
anyone interested in making sense of psychopathology.'
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