The important aspect that is studied from this article at the level of freedom which pressure point for existensialists in effort to enlighten existence, only can be achieved relation with transcendence. So, Karl Theodor Jaspers sees there are two focus issues existence and transcendence, means dealing Transcendence hides itself, therefore transcendence basis human freedom. purpose attempting d...

WEIDONG WU,1 LEE M. GRAVES,2 ILONA JASPERS,1 ROBERT B. DEVLIN,3 WILLIAM REED,1 AND JAMES M. SAMET3 1Center for Environmental Medicine and Lung Biology and 2Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599; and 3Human Studies Division, National Health Effects and Environmental Research Laboratory, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, N...

The biopsychosocial model is the conceptual status quo of contemporary psychiatry. Although it has played an important role in combatting psychiatric dogmatism, it has devolved into mere eclecticism. Other non-reductionistic approaches to medicine and psychiatry such as William Osler's medical humanism or Karl Jaspers' method-based psychiatry should be reconsidered.

In this paper I investigate the topic of paranoid atmospheres. This subject is especially of interest with respect to persons who are deluded, and also, I will demonstrate, sheds light upon the psychiatrist's "gaze" and knowledge of delusions. In my argument I will follow a path initially outlined by Karl Jaspers (1883-1969): modern psychiatric diagnosis of delusions is a diagnosis of form and ...

In his article “Different conceptions of mental illness: consequences for the association with patients” Helmchen rightly cautions against any kind of dogmatism in psychiatry, regardless of whether it is a social, a psychological or a biological one. Instead, he favors the biopsychosocial model as a remedy for “the narrowing of conceptions that depict only partial aspects of mental illness” (He...

Marx and Freud pointed out our blindness about the unconscious causes of individual and collective behavior. Their revolutionary intent was to liberate humanity by taking conscious control. Jaspers' evaluation of historical materialism and psychoanalysis turns on the contested relations between objectivity and subjectivity and science and philosophy. He tracks their two systems through stages: ...

We live in an incredibly fast-moving scientific world: what was valid yesterday is outdated today and perhaps long-forgotten tomorrow. The same applies to psychiatry. In the increasingly swift stream of psychiatric knowledge, one work stands out as a sheer immovable rock: Karl Jasper’s General Psychopathology. What other medical work can lay claim to be just as topical and valid today as it was...