One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology

345 Pages·2013·1.83 MB·English

by  Stanghellini

One Century of Karl Jaspers’
G eneral Psychopathology
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International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
Series editors: Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford, Katherine Morris, John Z. Sadler, and
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One Century of Karl
Jaspers’ G eneral
Psychopathology
Edited by
Giovanni Stanghellini
and
Thomas Fuchs
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Acknowledgements
The list of people we would like to mention for their help in preparing this book is very long.
We will confi ne to our closest assistants: Alexander Englert, Rixta Fambach, Alessandro
Longo, Milena Mancini, Simona Presenza, and Laerte Vetrugno. Their assistance had sev-
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to Bill Fulford with whom in the last two decades we had the privilege to share the project
of the renaissance of the philosophy of psychiatry.
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Contents
Contributors ix
Abbreviations xi
Editors’ introduction xiii
Giovanni Stanghellini and Thomas Fuchs
Introduction: The relevance of Karl Jaspers’ General Psychopathology
to current psychiatric debate xxiv
Mario Maj
Introduction: Particular psychopathologies—lessons from Karl Jaspers’
General Psychopathology for the new philosophy of psychiatry xxix
K.W.M (Bill) Fulford
Section 1 Historical and cultural background
1 Jaspers in his time 3
Federico Leoni
2 Phenomenology and psychopathology: in search of a method 16
Osborne P. Wiggins and Michael Alan Schwartz
3 Jaspers’ ‘Critique of Psychoanalysis’: between past and future 27
Mario Rossi Monti
4 Impact of Karl Jaspers’ General Psychopathology : the range
of appraisal 42
Christoph Mundt
Section 2 Methodological issues and concepts
5 Karl Jaspers’ General Psychopathology in the framework of clinical
practice 57
Otto Doerr-Zegers and H é ctor Pelegrina-Cetr á n
6 Form and content in Jaspers’ psychopathology 76
Chris Walker
7 Jaspers, phenomenology, and the ‘ontological difference’ 95
Louis A. Sass
8 Jaspers on explaining and understanding in psychiatry 107
Christoph Hoerl
9 Jaspers and neuroscience 121
Matthew R. Broome
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10 Karl Jaspers the pathographer 133
Matthias Bormuth
11 Karl Jaspers’ existential concept of psychotherapy 150
Jann E. Schlimme
12 The ethics of incomprehensibility 166
Giovanni Stanghellini
Section 3 Clinical concepts
13 Karl Jaspers’ hierarchical principle and current psychiatric
classifi cation 185
Henning Sass and Umberto Volpe
14 On psychosis: Karl Jaspers and beyond 208
Josef Parnas
15 Delusional atmosphere and the sense of unreality 229
Matthew Ratcliffe
16 The self in schizophrenia: Jaspers, Schneider, and beyond 245
Thomas Fuchs
17 Understanding mood disorders: Karl Jaspers’ biological
existentialism 258
S. Nassir Ghaemi
18 Reaction and development of manic and melancholic-depressive
patients 276
Alfred Kraus
Author index 295
Subject index 297
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Contributors
Matthias Bormuth Alfred Kraus
Institute for Philosophy Psychiatric Clinic
University of Oldenburg Center for Psychosocial Medicine
Oldenburg, Germany University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Matthew R. Broome
Department of Psychiatry, Mario Maj
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Psychiatry, University of
Highfi eld Adolescent Unit, Naples SUN, Naples, Italy
Warneford Hospital, Oxford Health NHS
Christoph Mundt
Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
Psychiatric Clinic
Otto Doerr-Zegers Center for Psychosocial Medicine
Director of the Center of University of Heidelberg
Studies on Phenomenology and Psychiatry, Heidelberg, Germany
University Diego Portales,
Josef Parnas
Santiago de Chile
Center For Subjectivity Research
T homas Fuchs University of Copenhagen
Psychiatric Clinic and Psychiatric Center Hvidovre
Center for Psychosocial Medicine University of Copenhagen
University of Heidelberg Copenhagen, Denmark
Heidelberg, Germany
H é ctor Pelegrina-Cetr á n
Bill (K.W.M) Fulford Universidad Aut ó noma de Madrid
Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Madrid, Spain
Member of the Philosophy Faculty
Matthew Ratcliffe
University of Oxford and
Department of Philosophy
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and
Durham University
Mental Health
Durham, UK
University of Warwick, UK
Mario Rossi Monti
S. Nassir Ghaemi
University of Urbino
Tufts Medical Center
Urbino, Italy
Boston, MA, USA
Henning Sass
Christoph Hoerl
Department of Psychiatry
Department of Philosophy
University of Technology RWTH
University of Warwick
Aachen, Germany
Coventry, UK
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