Grußworte zum Jaspers-Symposion in Neapel

Jaspers on Explaining and Understanding in Psychiatry

In one of the later editions of General Psychopathlogy, Karl Jaspers writes that, when the book was first published, his discussion of the distinction between explaining and understanding was " greeted as something radically new, although all I had done was to link psychiatric reality with the traditional humanities " (GP, p. 302). There is not a little tension between the apparent modesty of t...

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...

In ZUM ’ 97 : Proceedings

Jaspers ' Thought Its Meaning , Effect , Timeliness

Jaspers' thinking is motivated by transcending reason, radical time-consciousness, and the phenomenon of spiritual creativity and value-directedness. The fundamental question of truth for time-bound man is at the core of Jaspers' thinking, which he takes up with respect to mankind's age-old experience with the tradition of philosophical, religious, and literary thought. His works attain signifi...