Karl Jaspers
Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy. His 1913 work General Psychopathology influenced many later diagnostic criteria, and argued for a distinction between "primary" and "secondary" delusions.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Oldenburg
- Educated at
- Heidelberg University
- Awards
- 🏆 Erasmus Prize🏆 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order🏆 doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris🏆 Pour le Mérite🏆 Goethe Prize
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Jacob Marschak
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. S…"
"Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process..."
"My path was not the normal one of professors of philosophy. I did not intend to become a doctor of philosophy by studying philosophy nor did I by any means, intend originally to qualify for a professo…"
"We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to gr…"
"We are sorely deficient in talking with each other and listening to each other. We lack mobility, criticism and self-criticism. We incline to doctrinism. What makes it worse is that so many people do …"
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Timeline
1883
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Birth1969
Died
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