Introduction : the relevance of Karl Jaspers' "General Psychopathology" to current psychiatric debate / Mario Maj -- Introduction : particular psychopathologies- lessons from Karl Jaspers' "General Psychopathology" for the new philosophy of psychiatry / K.W.M. (Bill) Fulford -- Part I. Historical and cultural background -- ch. 1. Jaspers in time / Federic Leoni -- ch. 2. Phenomenology and psychopathology : in search of a method / Osborne P. Wiggins and Michael Alan schwartz - ch. 3. Jasper's 'critique of socialanalysis' : between past a future / Mario Rossi Monti -- ch. 4. Impact of Karl Jaspers' "General Psychopathology" : the range of appraisal / Christoph Mundt -- Part II. Methodological issues and concepts -- ch. 5. Karl Jaspers' "General Psychopathology" in the framework of clinical practice / Otto Doerr-Zegers and Hector Pelegrina-Cetran -- h. 6. Form and content in Jaspers' psychopathology / Chris Walker -- ch. 7. Jaspers, phenomenology, and the 'ontological difference' / Louis A. Sass -- ch. 8. Jaspers on explaining and understanding in psychiatry / Christoph Hoerl -- ch. 9. Jaspers and neuroscience / Matthew R. Broome -- ch. 10. Karl Jaspers the pathographer / matthias Bormuth -- ch. 11. Karl Jaspers' existential concept of psychotherapy / Jann E. Schlimme -- ch. 12. The ethics of incomprehensibility / Giovanni Stanghellini -- Part III. Clinical concepts -- ch. 13. Karl Jaspers' hierarchical principle and current psychiatric classification / Henning Sass and Umberto Volpe -- ch. 14. On psychosis : Karl Jaspers and beyond / Josef Parnas -- ch. 15. Delusional atmospher and the sense of unreality / Matthew Ratcliffe -- ch. 16. The self in schizophrenia : Jaspers, Schneider, and beyond / Thomas Fuchs -- ch. 17. Understanding mood disorders : Karl Jaspers' biological existentialism / S. Nassir Ghaemi -- ch. 18. Reaction and development of manic and melancholic-depressive patients / Alfred Kraus.