General Psychopathology Volume II
Karl Jaspers was only thirty when he amassed the data and expounded the methods and interpretations that give hisPsychopathologiea place at the side of James' monumentalPrinciples of Psychology. Like James, he later turned to philosophy. He certainly shared James' radically empirical spirit; he documented more systematically the challenge to the methodological imperialism to which psychopathology was subject in his day.(Peter A. BertocciReview of Metaphysics)As long as psychiatric diagnosis and treatment rest on psychopathological investigation, the continuing improvement and sharpening of this tool of investigation must remain a prime concern to psychiatrists. This book is a guide to that technique; still irreplaceable, much of it is still as fresh as the day it was written and still a lively stimulus to others yet to come.(E. W. Anderson, foreword to the 1963 English translation of General Psychopathology)