Karl Jaspers' philosophy and psychopathology

How much of mental illness is in the brain? The mind? Why does it matter? A century after his groundbreaking General Psychopathology, the work of Karl Jaspers remains relevant and timely. Then, as now, advances in neuroscience are revolutionizing psychology, resulting in a precarious balance between...

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Weitere Verfasser: Fuchs, Thomas (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Springer 2014
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Zusammenfassung:How much of mental illness is in the brain? The mind? Why does it matter? A century after his groundbreaking General Psychopathology, the work of Karl Jaspers remains relevant and timely. Then, as now, advances in neuroscience are revolutionizing psychology, resulting in a precarious balance between brain and mind. The papers in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy and Psychopathology revisit Jaspers' ideas and methods in light of contemporary thinking and offer insights on how these may inform approaches to theoretical discourse and clinical practice. Working to bridge psychiatry and medicine, organizing a classification system for mental disorders, and rejecting dogmatic formulas in favor of respecting client experience, he emerges as a translator as well as a transmitter of clinical ideas. Through these chapters, he continues to remind his peers to never lose sight of the patient as human, and the brain--so often in danger of being reduced to the sum of its structures--as the seat of our humanity
Beschreibung:Includes index
Part I: History and Methodology -- Part II: Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Beschreibung:X, 188 S.
Ill.
ISBN:9781461488781
1461488788
1-4614-8878-8
9781461488774
978-1-4614-8877-4