In 1912, Karl Jaspers published an article entitled "The Phenomenological Approach to Psychopathology." This and his subsequent text, General Psychopathology, was to exert a profound influence on the development of psychiatry in general and psychiatric nosology in particular. The current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and International Classification of Diseases both refl...

Jaspers' concept of limit situations seems particularly appropriate not only to elucidate outstanding existential situations in general, but also basic preconditions for the occurrence of mental disorders. For this purpose, the concept is first explained in Jaspers' sense and then related to an 'existential vulnerability' of mentally ill persons that makes them experience even inconspicuous eve...

The respiratory protease/antiprotease balance determines susceptibility to viral 1 infection and can be modified by nutritional antioxidants 2 Megan Meyer, Ilona Jaspers 3 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel 4 Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 5 Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, University of North 6 Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hil...