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General Psychopathology: From Personality Development to Mass Psychology

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General Psychopathology: From Personality Development to Mass Psychology
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Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) is renowned primarily as a philosopher, one of the founders of existentialism, whose influence was noted by Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Hannah Arendt. However, Jaspers was not only a philosopher but also a psychiatrist, and his doctoral dissertation, General Psychopathology, was the result of several years of work in a psychiatric hospital. Jaspers was deeply dissatisfied with the approaches to the study and treatment of mental illness that existed at his time. He believed that this branch of medicine was in deep crisis, and set himself the ambitious task of developing a new scientific foundation for psychiatry. In fact, he created the philosophy of psychiatry, developing a new language and categorical apparatus for describing and classifying mental disorders. The first edition of General Psychopathology was published in 1913, when Jaspers was 30 years old; The book became his life's work, revising and expanding it with each edition, until 1959, when the 7th edition was published. It is a classic of psychiatric literature, a reference for psychiatrists, and remains indispensable despite the rapid advances in the sciences of the human brain and psyche in recent decades. The diagnostic criteria accepted today, as well as the classification of mental disorders, are still based on the ideas and methods outlined in this work.
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