RESPONSABILIDADE E CULPA ALEMÃ: UM DIÁLOGO ENTRE HANNAH ARENDT E KARL JASPERS

Um agir micropolítico e pedagógico intenso: a humanização entre laços e perspectivas

This paper deals with the challenges of a Brazilian strategy for the healthcare system to improve the quality of its caregiving and managerial response, i.e. the National Humanization Policy. Independent of political, conceptual or results analysis, it discusses the humanization of the healthcare body by means of comparison with its reifications in clinical practice, as seen in the sovereignty ...

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

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We live in an incredibly fast-moving scientific world: what was valid yesterday is outdated today and perhaps long-forgotten tomorrow.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...