One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology

Giovanni Stanghellini, MD and MD honoris causa, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, is full professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at G. d’Annunzio University in Chieti (Italy). He founding chair of European Psychiatric Association section “Philosophy and Psychiatry” and of World Psychiatric Association section “Psychiatry and the Humanities”. He also founded, with Bill Fulford and John Sadler, the Intenrantional Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry. He is co-editor of the OUP series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry.

He has written extensively on the philosophical foundations of psychiatry. Among his books published by OUP are Nature and Narrative (with KWM Fulford, K. Morris and JZ Sadler, Eds.), Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies, Emotions and Personhood, (with R. Rosfort), and Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (with KWM Fulford et al, Eds.).

Thomas Fuchs, MD, PhD, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and philosopher, is Karl Jaspers-Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg. He heads the phenomenology section at the Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg, and the philosophy section of the German Psychiatric Association (DGPPN). He is co-ordinator of the interdisciplinary European Research Project “TESIS” on Embodied Intersubjectivity (2011-2015, www.tesis.rtn-eu http://www.tesis.rtn-eu). He has published extensively on phenomenological psychology, psychopathology and theory of neuroscience. His book on the “Ecology of the Brain” will be published by OUP in 2013.