Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1969)

Karl Jaspers

German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)

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…