This was radical. Freud claimed all psychic content could be understood (repression, symbolization). Jaspers said: No – some psychotic experiences are like a "foreign body" in the psyche, as alien to normal psychology as a tumor to a muscle.
First published in 1913, Jaspers (a psychiatrist turned philosopher) created the behind modern descriptive psychopathology. Before him, psychiatry was either pure neurology or Freudian speculation. Jaspers asked: How do we even know what a symptom is? karl jaspers psicopatologia general pdf
: While its methodological framework is timeless, some of the specific clinical classifications have been superseded by modern neurobiology and updated diagnostic criteria. : Finding a high-quality Spanish translation ( Psicopatología General This was radical