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Karl Theodor Jaspers ( / ˈjæspərz /, German: [kaʁl ˈjaspɐs] ⓘ; [ 4][ 5] 23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy. His 1913 work General Psychopathology influenced many later diagnostic criteria, and argued for a ...
The philosopher and psychologist Karl Jaspers delivered lectures to students in 1946 which were published under the title The Question of German Guilt. [6] In this published work, Jaspers describes how "an acknowledgment of national guilt was a necessary condition for the moral and political rebirth of Germany". [ 7 ]
The concept was developed by Karl Jaspers, who considered fright, guilt, finality and suffering as some of the key limit situations arising in everyday life. [2]
Philosophy of Existence ( German: Existenzphilosophie, 1938) is a book by German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers. [1] It is both a discussion on the history of philosophy and an exposition of Jaspers' own philosophical system, which is often viewed as a form of existentialism. He put forth concepts such as existence in a minimal and ...
Psychopathology is the study of mental illness. It includes the signs and symptoms of all mental disorders. The field includes abnormal cognition, maladaptive behavior, and experiences which differ according to social norms. This discipline is an in-depth look into symptoms, behaviors, causes, course, development, categorization, treatments ...
Theory of categories. In ontology, the theory of categories concerns itself with the categories of being: the highest genera or kinds of entities. [ 1] To investigate the categories of being, or simply categories, is to determine the most fundamental and the broadest classes of entities. [ 2] A distinction between such categories, in making the ...
Specialty. Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry. Psychasthenia was a psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. [ 1] The term is no longer in psychiatric diagnostic use, although it still forms one of the ten clinical subscales of the popular self-report personality inventories MMPI and MMPI-2.
Limit-experience. In continental philosophy, limit-experience ( French: expérience limite) is a quality of experience that approaches the limits of possible experience. This can be in terms of its intensity, and it being seemingly impossible or paradoxical. In Lacanianism, a limit-experience dissociates the subject from the experience that it ...