One Century of Karl Jaspers' Psychopathology

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science with the publication of his magnum opus the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology), Many of the issues concerning methodology and diagnosis are today the subject of much discussion and debate. This volume brings together leading psychiatrists and philosophers to discuss the impact of this volume, its relevance today, and the legacy it left. Zusammenfassung 2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science. Many of the issues concerning methodology and diagnosis are today the subject of much discussion and debate. This volume brings together leading psychiatrists and philosophers to discuss the impact of this volume, its relevance today, and the legacy it left....

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• Authors: Thomas Fuchs, Giovanni Stanghellini, Giovanni/ Fuchs Stanghellini
• Assisted by: Thomas Fuchs (Editor), Thomas (Karl Jaspers-Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry Fuchs (Editor), Fuchs Thomas (Editor), Giovanni Stanghellini (Editor), Giovanni (Professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology Stanghellini (Editor), Stanghellini Giovanni (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9780199609253
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960925-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry; International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry; International Perspectives in
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Philosophy of Mind, MEDICAL / History, Psychiatry, Clinical psychology, History of Medicine, Abnormal psychology