General Psychopathology

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.

• 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' PrefaceAuthor's PrefacesDetailed Analysis of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Individual Psychic PhenomenaChapter 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 ActivityChapter 4. Meaningful Objective PhenomenaPart II. Meaningful Psychic ConnectionsChapter 5. Meaningful ConnectionsChapter 6. Meaningful Connections and Their Specific MechanismsChapter 7. The Patient's Attitude to His IllnessChapter 8. The Totality of the MEaningful Connections

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