title: A hundred-year of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology (Allgemeine Psychopathologie)--1913-2013: a pivotal book in the history of psychiatry.
abstract: After a hundred-years of its publication, the Karl Jaspers' book, General Psychopathology, is still an indispensable book to psychiatrists and for all those who study psychopathology. It's a clear delineation of the phenomenological method for describing the symptoms of mental disorders that remains unmatched until nowadays. The book focuses on the relevance of phenomenological and hermeneutical methods in psychopathology. Although this work is grounded in the clinical thought and practices of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jaspers' delineation of psychiatric methods in this work is still evaluated as unmatched to this day, a work that is indispensable to contemporary psychiatry. Jaspers also contributed with important articles and book reviews to psychiatric periodicals during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
authors.affiliation: Panic & Respiration Laboratory, Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil. antonioenardi@gmail.com
authors.forename: Antonio Egidio
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Nardi
authors.forename: Rafael Christophe
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Freire
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.forename: Adriana Cardoso
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: José Alexandre
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Crippa
mesh_terms: D001877:Books / Q000266:history; D005197:Famous Persons; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D011599:Psychopathology / Q000266:history*