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- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Abbreviations
- Editors’ introduction
- Introduction: The relevance of Karl Jaspers’ <i>General Psychopathology</i> to current psychiatric debate
- Introduction: Particular psychopathologies – lessons from Karl Jaspers’ <i>General Psychopathology</i> for the new philosophy of psychiatry
- Chapter 1 Jaspers in his time
- Chapter 2 Phenomenology and psychopathology: in search of a method
- Chapter 3 Jaspers’ ‘Critique of Psychoanalysis’: between past and future
- Chapter 4 Impact of Karl Jaspers’ <i>General Psychopathology</i>: the range of appraisal
- Chapter 5 Karl Jaspers’ <i>General Psychopathology</i> in the framework of clinical practice
- Chapter 6 Form and content in Jaspers’ psychopathology
- Chapter 7 Jaspers, phenomenology, and the ‘ontological difference’
- Chapter 8 Jaspers on explaining and understanding in psychiatry
- Chapter 9 Jaspers and neuroscience
- Chapter 10 Karl Jaspers the pathographer
- Chapter 11 Karl Jaspers’ existential concept of psychotherapy
- Chapter 12 The ethics of incomprehensibility
- Chapter 13 Karl Jaspers’ hierarchical principle and current psychiatric classification
- Chapter 14 On psychosis: Karl Jaspers and beyond
- Chapter 15 Delusional atmosphere and the sense of unreality
- Chapter 16 The self in schizophrenia: Jaspers, Schneider, and beyond
- Chapter 17 Understanding mood disorders: Karl Jaspers’ biological existentialism
- Chapter 18 Reaction and development of manic and melancholic-depressive patients
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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Understanding mood disorders: Karl Jaspers’ biological existentialism
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S. Nassir Ghaemi
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- 10.1093/med/9780199609253.003.0017
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- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Abbreviations
- Editors’ introduction
- Introduction: The relevance of Karl Jaspers’ <i>General Psychopathology</i> to current psychiatric debate
- Introduction: Particular psychopathologies – lessons from Karl Jaspers’ <i>General Psychopathology</i> for the new philosophy of psychiatry
- Chapter 1 Jaspers in his time
- Chapter 2 Phenomenology and psychopathology: in search of a method
- Chapter 3 Jaspers’ ‘Critique of Psychoanalysis’: between past and future
- Chapter 4 Impact of Karl Jaspers’ <i>General Psychopathology</i>: the range of appraisal
- Chapter 5 Karl Jaspers’ <i>General Psychopathology</i> in the framework of clinical practice
- Chapter 6 Form and content in Jaspers’ psychopathology
- Chapter 7 Jaspers, phenomenology, and the ‘ontological difference’
- Chapter 8 Jaspers on explaining and understanding in psychiatry
- Chapter 9 Jaspers and neuroscience
- Chapter 10 Karl Jaspers the pathographer
- Chapter 11 Karl Jaspers’ existential concept of psychotherapy
- Chapter 12 The ethics of incomprehensibility
- Chapter 13 Karl Jaspers’ hierarchical principle and current psychiatric classification
- Chapter 14 On psychosis: Karl Jaspers and beyond
- Chapter 15 Delusional atmosphere and the sense of unreality
- Chapter 16 The self in schizophrenia: Jaspers, Schneider, and beyond
- Chapter 17 Understanding mood disorders: Karl Jaspers’ biological existentialism
- Chapter 18 Reaction and development of manic and melancholic-depressive patients
- Author Index
- Subject Index