General Psychopathology Volume II

I am SO glad that this was reprinted, it is a monument of what psychiatric thought can produce. Jaspers presents a clear, deep and useful approach (Phenomenological) to the assessment and understanding of psychiatric patients. McHugh, himself an unappreciated giant (cf Perspectives of Psychiatry), writes an introduction that sensitively places the author and the work in the context from which it arose.

it is a great book for practitioners. Amazon fails in do not sell the both volumes together, this cause me a problem... i hope that they understand that the two books are part of an complete work, not to be sold separately.

Although there is nothing bad that can be said about Karl Jaspers or General Psychopathology, buyers should beware: THIS IS JUST BOOK 2!!!!

This work by Jaspers explores psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from his philosophical viewpoint of Existentialism. While much of what Jaspers says from the medical/scientific view is certainly looks out of date, this work remains a fascinating exploration of human conciousness and being-in the world with a strongly scientific slant. While it does not match the rigor of Freud and his school or the philosophical insight and depth of Sartre and Merlau-Ponty, for the philosopher it retains much of interest and also gives one a good insight into Jasper's later philosophical work.

There is much more in this book than the average patient is ever going to learn in personal visits to a shrink. A thorough knowledge of the point of view presented by Jaspers goes a long way in support of the view that modern drug treatments of psychiatric problems attempt to mask symptoms, which are much easier to define and classify than the problems of existence that attempt to surface in situations where people would like an infinite solution to individual problems. In Jaspers's examination of the relationship between the doctor and the patient, any doctor who approaches a fixed view of the best remedy is in danger of failing to understand the nature of the individual patient. It helps to have some background in the personal issues which are most meaningful to the reader. In our own time, there is a controversy about the use of ancient remedies like marijuana, and I found it useful to compare therapeutic suggestions in this book with the federal government's position that smoking such stuff isn't medicine, "it's more like a Cheech and Chong show." If you want to live through reading this book, you will have to inhale while you read. Best of all, there is no point in this book at which the doctor says, "Your time is up."

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