KMID : 1118520190160020099
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Psychiatry Investigation 2019 Volume.16 No. 2 p.99 ~ p.108
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Karl Jaspers¡¯ General Psychopathology (Allgemeine Psychopathologie) and Its Implication for the Current Psychiatry
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Park Seon-Cheol
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Abstract
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Karl Jaspers is a psychiatrist, philosopher, and humanist. In 1913, he published the General Psychopathology (GP; Allgemeine Psychopathologie), the first edition. Despite the passage of one hundred years after the GP was published, GP still has a potential value to present a phenomenological and comprehensive viewpoint for psychiatry to overcome Kraepelinian-biological absolutism. The philosophical backgrounds of a Jaspersian phenomenological sense have been related to both the transcendence and the immanence roots. Partly under the influence of a Husserlian distinction between the natural and phenomenological attitudes, a rigid distinction between explanation and understanding has been proposed as the proper epistemological method in Jaspers¡¯ GP. Further, the fact that a distinction between process and development has been presented as the psychical phenomenon is understandable. The integrated and comprehensive viewpoint establishment for the state of ¡°Babylonian confusion of tongues¡± in German psychiatry as well as the newly initiating phenomenological trend in psychiatry have been the legacies of Jaspers¡¯ GP. Moreover, the common theoretical backgrounds may be shared by the Jaspersian sense and humanitarian approaches in Korean psychiatry. Also, the Jaspersian sense may help the current molecular psychiatry to have a chance to overcome its solipsism and limitations.
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KEYWORD
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Karl Jaspers, General Psychopathology, Transcendence, Immanence, Korean psychiatry
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