Karl Jaspers' Philosophy and Psychopathology

Part I: History and Methodology.- Psychopathology and the Modern Age. Karl Jaspers reads Hölderlin.- Hermeneutical and dialectical thinking in psychiatry and the contribution of Karl Jaspers.- Phenomenological intuitionism and its psychiatric impact.- The reception of Jaspers' General Psychopathology outside of Europe.- Brain mythologies: Jaspers' critique of reductionism from a current perspective.- Karl Jaspers' criticism of anthropological and phenomenological psychiatry.- Perspectival knowing: Karl Jaspers and Ronald N. Giere.- Part II: Psychopathology and Psychotherapy.-Karl Jaspers on primary delusional experiences of schizophrenics: his concept of delusion compared to that of the DSM.- Delusion and double book-keeping.- Jaspers on feelings and affective states.- Jaspers' concept of "limit situation": extensions and therapeutic applications.- Psychopathology and psychotherapy in Jaspers' work and today's perspectives on psychotherapy in psychiatry.