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Principles of general psychopathology

"The first part of the book deals with the fundamentals of psychopathological concepts. Each chapter starts with a psychological introduction for the understanding of the psychopathological symptoms, all of which are described and defined. The diseases are mentioned in which they are found. The second part of the book deals with the psychological connections. Here, the author investigates what dynamic psychology and dynamic psychopathology really are and what their scientific foundations are. In this part of the book he takes a critical attitude to psychoanalysis, although with deep respect for the psychoanalytical school. An important new concept is added for the understanding of neuroses. This has already proven of great value in practice. In the third part the pathological syndromes or symptom-complexes are described and the diseases in which they are found are designated. The fourth part deals with the foundations of personality, character and temperament and their deviations in pathological cases. It deals, besides, with the relationship between personality and psychosis. In the last chapter the author delineates the psychopathic from the neurotic personality"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

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