This book is based on a congress evaluating Jaspers' basic psychopathological concepts and their anthropological roots in light of modern research paradigms. It provides a definition of delusion, his concept of "limit situation" so much challenged by trauma research, and his methodological debate. We are approaching the anniversary of Jaspers seminal work General Psychopathology in 1913. The Centre of Psychosocial Medicine of the University with its Psychiatric Hospital where Jaspers wrote this influential volume as a 29 year old clinical assistant hosted a number of international experts familiar with his psychiatric and philosophical work. This fruitful interdisciplinary discussion seems particularly important in light of the renewed interest in Jaspers' work, which will presumably increase towards the anniversary year 2013. This volume is unique in bringing together the knowledge of leading international scholars and combining three dimensions of investigation that are necessary to understand Jaspers in light of contemporary questions: history (section I), methodology (section II) and application (section III).

There is a growing interest in embodied approaches to psychotherapy internationally. This volume focuses on the respective focal professions of dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) and body psychotherapy (BP), addressing the psychotherapeutic need for healing throughout the lifespan. Within embodied clinical approaches, the therapist and client collaborate to discover how the body and movement can be used to strengthen positive relational skills, attending to the client's immediate and long-term needs through assessment, formulation, treatment and evaluation. Both DMP and BP are based upon the capacity and authority of the body and non-verbal communication to support and heal patients with diverse conditions, including trauma, unexplained bodily symptoms and other psychological distress, and to develop the clients' emotional and relational capacities by listening to their bodies for integration and wellbeing. In The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy, world leaders in the field contribute their expertise to showcase contemporary psychotherapeutic practice. They share perspectives from multiple models that have been developed throughout the world, providing information on theoretical advances and clinical practice, as well as discourse on the processes and therapeutic techniques employed individually and in groups. Presented in three parts, the book covers underpinning embodiment concepts, potentials of dance movement psychotherapy and of body psychotherapy, each of which is introduced with a scene-setting piece to allow the reader to easily engage with the content. With a strong focus on cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives, readers will find a wide compilation of embodied approaches to psychotherapy, allowing them to deepen and further their conceptualization and support best practice. This unique handbook will be of particular interest to clinical practitioners in the fields of body psychotherapy and dance movement psychotherapy as well as professionals from psychology, medicine, social work, counselling/psychotherapy and occupational therapy, and to those from related fields who are in search of information on the basic therapeutic principles and practice of body and movement psychotherapies and seeking to further their knowledge and understanding of the discipline. It is also an essential reference for academics and students of embodied psychotherapy, embodied cognitive science and clinical professions.

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from many different points of view, an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different individuals, and our position-takings can in part be mediated by our belonging to some social or cultural groups. All these phenomena can be described by referring to the metaphor of perspective. Assuming that there are different, and irreducible, perspectives we can take on the experienced world, and on others as experiencing the same world, the phenomenon of mutual understanding can consistently be understood in terms of perspectival flexibility. This edited volume investigates the different processes in which perspectival flexibility occurs in social life and particularly focuses on the constitutive role of imagination in such processes. It includes original works in philosophy and psychopathology showing how perspectival flexibility and social cognition are grounded on the interplay of direct perception and imagination.

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from many different points of view, an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different individuals, and our position-takings can in part be mediated by our belonging to some social or cultural groups. All these phenomena can be described by referring to the metaphor of perspective. Assuming that there are different, and irreducible, perspectives we can take on the experienced world, and on others as experiencing the same world, the phenomenon of mutual understanding can consistently be understood in terms of perspectival flexibility. This edited volume investigates the different processes in which perspectival flexibility occurs in social life and particularly focuses on the constitutive role of imagination in such processes. It includes original works in philosophy and psychopathology showing how perspectival flexibility and social cognition are grounded on the interplay of direct perception and imagination.

There is a growing interest in embodied approaches to psychotherapy internationally. This volume focuses on the respective focal professions of dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) and body psychotherapy (BP), addressing the psychotherapeutic need for healing throughout the lifespan. Within embodied clinical approaches, the therapist and client collaborate to discover how the body and movement can be used to strengthen positive relational skills, attending to the client's immediate and long-term needs through assessment, formulation, treatment and evaluation. Both DMP and BP are based upon the capacity and authority of the body and non-verbal communication to support and heal patients with diverse conditions, including trauma, unexplained bodily symptoms and other psychological distress, and to develop the clients' emotional and relational capacities by listening to their bodies for integration and wellbeing. In The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy, world leaders in the field contribute their expertise to showcase contemporary psychotherapeutic practice. They share perspectives from multiple models that have been developed throughout the world, providing information on theoretical advances and clinical practice, as well as discourse on the processes and therapeutic techniques employed individually and in groups. Presented in three parts, the book covers underpinning embodiment concepts, potentials of dance movement psychotherapy and of body psychotherapy, each of which is introduced with a scene-setting piece to allow the reader to easily engage with the content. With a strong focus on cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives, readers will find a wide compilation of embodied approaches to psychotherapy, allowing them to deepen and further their conceptualization and support best practice. This unique handbook will be of particular interest to clinical practitioners in the fields of body psychotherapy and dance movement psychotherapy as well as professionals from psychology, medicine, social work, counselling/psychotherapy and occupational therapy, and to those from related fields who are in search of information on the basic therapeutic principles and practice of body and movement psychotherapies and seeking to further their knowledge and understanding of the discipline. It is also an essential reference for academics and students of embodied psychotherapy, embodied cognitive science and clinical professions.

2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right. In 1913 Karl Jaspers published his psychiatric opus magnum - the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology). Jaspers was working at a time much like our own - with rapid expansion in the neurosciences, and responding to the philosophical challenges that this raised. The idea inspiring his book was very simple: to bring order into the chaos of abnormal psychic phenomena by rigorous description, definition and classification, and to empower psychiatry with a valid and reliable method to assess and make sense of abnormal human subjectivity. After almost one century, many of the concepts challenged by Jaspers are still at issue, and Jaspers' investigation is even now the ground for analyses and discussions. With a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) imminent, many of the issues concerning methodology and diagnosis are still the subject of much discussion and debate. This volume brings together leading psychiatrists and philosophers to discuss and evaluate the impact of this volume, its relevance today, and the legacy it left. "Jaspers' General Psychopathology is not an easy text to read. Especially nowadays, in the Internet era, it may appear in several parts obscure, convoluted, or repetitive. This is why the present volume has the potential to be not only attractive to scholars, but also extremely useful for young psychiatrists and busy clinicians. It may represent for them a 'guide' to the reading of that ponderous text, helping them to extract the key messages that are likely to resonate with, and at the same time enrich, their clinical practice and theoretical reflection." - From the Introduction by Mario Maj

With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves "in the image of our machines", and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality, neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st century.

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a collective, a living being which uses the brain to mediate interactions. Those interactions may be both within the human body and between the human body and its environment. Within this framework, the mind is seen not as a product of the brain but as an activity of the living being; an activity which integrates the brain within the everyday functions of the human body. Going further, Fuchs reformulates the traditional mind-brain problem, presenting it as a dual aspect of the living being: the lived body and the subjective body - the living body and the objective body. The processes of living and experiencing life, Fuchs argues, are in fact inextricably linked; it is not the brain, but the human being who feels, thinks and acts. For students and academics, Ecology of the Brain will be of interest to those studying or researching theory of mind, social and cultural interaction, psychiatry, and psychotherapy.

Psychische Krankheit wird in dieser Arbeit als Storung einer Beziehung zwischen Person und Welt aufgefasst, die wesentlich durch den Leib und den Raum vermittelt ist. Diese Beziehung lasst sich phanomenologisch adaquater beschreiben, wenn der Erlebnisraum in verschiedene Modalitaten differenziert wird: in den Leibraum, den Richtungs-, den Stimmungs-, den personalen und den Lebensraum. Diese Anthropologie von Leib und Raum dient als Basis zum einen fur eine phanomenologische Interpretation der Melancholie und der Schizophrenie, zum anderen fur eine empirische Untersuchung zweier Patientengruppen mit paranoiden und depressiven Alterspsychosen. Die Arbeit schlagt somit einen Bogen von der anthropologischen Grundlegung uber die spezielle Psychopathologie zur empirischen Anwendung in der biographisch-psychopathologischen Forschung."

NeuromuskulArem Monitoring kommt entscheidende Bedeutung fA1/4r den kontrollierten Einsatz von Muskelrelaxanzien zu. Zusammen mit der Reversierung ist es Grundlage jedes erfolgreichen Konzepts zum Vermeiden von postoperativen Restblockaden. Dieses komprimierte Nachschlagewerk liefert alle wichtigen Informationen, die zur Anwendung des neuromuskulAren Monitorings benAtigt werden: Physiologische und pharmakologische Grundlagen der neuromuskulAren ErregungsA1/4bertragung; Grundlagen des neuromuskulAren Monitorings: von der Stimulationselektrode A1/4ber die richtige Wahl des Stimulationsmusters bis zur Interpretation der Ergebnisse; Praktisches Vorgehen im klinischen Alltag; Klinische Konzepte fA1/4r qualitative und quantitative Nervenstimulatoren; AusfA1/4hrliche Beschreibung der Akzeleromyographie inklusive eines Frage-Antwort-Abschnitts; Wichtige Informationen in MerksAtzen zusammengefasst; Aktuelle Richtlinien zum wissenschaftlichen Einsatz der Akzeleromyographie.

Der Arzt und Kunsthistoriker Prinzhorn sammelte zwischen 1919 und 1921 uber 5000 Arbeiten von Patienten - eine einzigartige Kollektion von Kunstwerken psychisch Kranker.

Der Band "Wahn Welt Bild" enthalt die Vortrage des interdisziplinaren Kongresses zur Museumseroffnung der Sammlung Prinzhorn in der Psychiatrischen Universitatsklinik Heidelberg 2001. Die reich bebilderten Beitrage namhafter Autoren beleuchten das Spektrum von Psychiatrie, Kunst und Gesellschaft in ihren wechselseitigen Einflussen.

- Entstehungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte der Prinzhorn-Sammlung

- Einfluss der Sammlung auf die allgemeine Kunst und Kunstgeschichte

- Psychopathologie und Kunst - die Wurzeln der Kreativitat in seelischen Grenzverfassungen des Menschen

- Die Rolle der Kunst im therapeutischen Klinikalltag

Ein Band, der eindrucksvolle Einblicke in eine individuelle Welt der Angste, Depressionen und Schizophrenien ermoglicht.

Wurden Sie heute eine Reise in eine der landlichen Regionen in Deutschland wiederholen, die in den 60er Jahren schon einmal stattgefunden hat, so gabe es viel festzuhalten. Der Schotterweg, auf dem Sie sich damals einem Dorf genahert haben, ist nun eine breite, asphaltierte Strasse; die vielen Baume im Dorf sind verschwunden; eine neue Bushaltestelle zeigt an, dass hier zweimal am Tag ein Schulbus verkehrt. Das Dorfgasthaus ist geschlossen, sie begeg nen jedoch einem Dorfgemeinschaftshaus, das allerdings auch nicht geoffnet ist. Wenn Sie das Haus eines Bekannten in diesem Dorf aufsuchen, so ist es grundlegend erneuert: mit einem geraumigen Bad, einer Gastetoilette und ei ner modernen Einbaukuche ausgestattet. Der ehemalige kleine Stall ist nun mehr eine Garage oder eine Werkstatt. Sie erfahren, dass das Dorf seit uber zwanzig Jahren keinen eigenen Burgermeister mehr hat, sondern ein Ortsteil einer Grossgemeinde ist, von der die Wasserversorgung und Entsorgung, die Mullabfuhr und die Pflege der Strassenrander ubernommen wurde. Mogli cherweise erzahlt Ihnen Ihr Bekannter, dass gerade eine Intitiativgruppe zur Entwicklung der Region gegrundet worden sei und es nunmehr darum gehe, die Identitat des Ortes und der Region wiederzufinden. Ein Dorf musse wieder als Dorf erfahrbar werden. Funfunddreissig Jahre haben gereicht, Lebensformen und Landnutzung, Bauformen und politische Regulation grundlegend zu andern."

This book is based on a congress evaluating Jaspers' basic psychopathological concepts and their anthropological roots in light of modern research paradigms. It provides a definition of delusion, his concept of "limit situation" so much challenged by trauma research, and his methodological debate. We are approaching the anniversary of Jaspers seminal work General Psychopathology in 1913. The Centre of Psychosocial Medicine of the University with its Psychiatric Hospital where Jaspers wrote this influential volume as a 29 year old clinical assistant hosted a number of international experts familiar with his psychiatric and philosophical work. This fruitful interdisciplinary discussion seems particularly important in light of the renewed interest in Jaspers' work, which will presumably increase towards the anniversary year 2013. This volume is unique in bringing together the knowledge of leading international scholars and combining three dimensions of investigation that are necessary to understand Jaspers in light of contemporary questions: history (section I), methodology (section II) and application (section III).

Spannendes, Mutmachendes und Witziges fur Kinder zwischen 5 und 9 Jahren. Geschichten und Gedichte zum Vor- und Selberlesen in Schul-Druckschrift. Mit Bildern von Manfred Schluter. Bucherwurm trifft Leseratte ist zugleich Programm und will Kinder zum Artenschutz dieser beiden bedrohten "Tierarten" animieren. Ausgewahlte Geschichten und Gedichte wie in dieser Sammlung helfen dabei Bucherwurm trifft Leseratte ist das erste Gemeinschaftsprojekt bekannter Kinderbuchautoren in der Edition Gegenwind. Weitere Informationen zum Buch siehe: www.buecherwurm-trifft.de.vu