A TEORIA DA VERDADE EM KARL JASPERS (II)

Mapeando Diagramas da Teoria da Atividade em Modelos Organizacionais Baseados em i*

Resumo. Abordagens modernas de engenharia de requisitos dividem o processo de elicitação em dois estágios: um voltado para análise do contexto onde o futuro software será usado e outro focado em projetar alternativas de software adequados a este contexto. Um adequado Framework teórico para apoiar a realização de análises de contexto é oferecido pela Teoria da Atividade. A Teoria da Atividade é ...

Nosologomania: DSM & Karl Jaspers' Critique of Kraepelin

Emil Kraepelin's nosology has been reinvented, for better or worse. In the United States, the rise of the neo-Kraepelinian nosology of DSM-III resuscitated Kraepelin's work but also differed from many of his ideas, especially his overtly biological ontology. This neo-Kraepelinian system has led to concerns regarding overdiagnosis of psychiatric syndromes ("nosologomania") and perhaps scientific...

Karl Jaspers: 100 years of General Psychopathology.

Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was born into an upper-middle-class family. He was a sickly child but it was only in April 1901 that bronchiectasis was diagnosed. This was a lifelong condition that influenced his choice of career but also his outlook as he was not expected to live long. Jaspers studied medicine in Berlin, Göttingen and Heidelberg. At Heidelberg, he came into contact with many of the l...

Karl Jaspers and human-based psychiatry.

We live in an incredibly fast-moving scientific world: what was valid yesterday is outdated today and perhaps long-forgotten tomorrow. The same applies to psychiatry. In the increasingly swift stream of psychiatric knowledge, one work stands out as a sheer immovable rock: Karl Jasper’s General Psychopathology. What other medical work can lay claim to be just as topical and valid today as it was...

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