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| Author | Jaspers K. |
| Title | Obshhaja psihopatologija |
| Description | Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) became famous primarily as a philosopher, one of the founders of existentialism, whose influence was noted by Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Hannah Arendt. Alongside his philosophical work, Jaspers was also a psychiatrist, and General Psychopathology grew out of his doctoral dissertation after several years of work in a psychiatric hospital. He was deeply dissatisfied with the approaches to mental illness that existed in his time, believing that this field of medicine was in serious crisis, and he set himself the ambitious task of developing new scientific foundations for psychiatry. In effect, he created a philosophy of psychiatry and developed a new language for describing mental disorders. The first edition of General Psychopathology appeared in 1913, when Jaspers was thirty. The book became his life’s work, and with each new edition he revised and expanded it until 1959, when the seventh edition was published. This is a classic of psychiatric literature and a standard reference work for psychiatrists. Despite the intensive development of research on the human brain and the psyche in recent decades, the book has kept its value. Present-day diagnostic criteria still rely on ideas and methods set out in this work. The classification of mental disorders also continues to bear its mark. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publisher | Azbuka |
| Pages | 1056 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 978-5-389-27744-1 |