Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy and Psychopathology

Part I. History and Methodology

1. Psychopathology and the Modern Age. Karl Jaspers Reads Hölderlin
Matthias Bormuth

2. Hermeneutical and Dialectical Thinking in Psychiatry and the Contribution of Karl Jaspers
Otto Dörr

3. Phenomenological Intuitionism and Its Psychiatric Impact
Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl

4. The Reception of Jaspers’ General Psychopathology Outside of Europe
Andrés Heerlein, Carlos Cornaglia

5. Brain Mythologies
Thomas Fuchs

6. Karl Jaspers Criticism of Anthropological and Phenomenological Psychiatry
Samuel Thoma

7. Perspectival Knowing Karl Jaspers and Ronald N. Giere
Osborne P. Wiggins, Michael A. Schwartz

Part II. Psychopathology and Psychotherapy

8. Karl Jaspers on Primary Delusional Experiences of Schizophrenics: His Concept of Delusion Compared to That of the DSM
Alfred Kraus

9. Delusion and Double Book-Keeping
Louis A. Sass

10. Jaspers on Feelings and Affective States
Giovanni Stanghellini, René Rosfort

11. Jaspers Concept of “Limit Situation”: Extensions and Therapeutic Applications
Christoph Mundt

12. Psychopathology and Psychotherapy in Jaspers’ Work and Today’s Perspectives on Psychotherapy in Psychiatry
Sabine C. Herpertz

Keywords: Psychology, History of Psychology, Psychotherapy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences