Background
January Hendrik (JH) van den Berg was born June 11, 1914 in Deventer, the Netherlands.
(“Through the presentation of the behavior of a single cas...)
“Through the presentation of the behavior of a single case, van den Berg elaborates the major forms of experiencing, including one's physical world, one's body, one's social world, and time perspective of past and future. Before elaborating how these notions can be dealt with within an existential orientation, he discusses their traditional conception in pathology under the rubrics of projection, conversion, transference, and mythicizing. In a final chapter, he provides an integrating framework in discussing pathology as the experience of loneliness. Not the least of the rewards in this book is the author's concluding section providing an historical summary of phenomenological psychopathology. Seminal works and ideas of such major figures as Dilthey, Jaspers, Binswanger, Straus, Boss, and Sartre, as well as less-known contributors, are given a brief but judicious presentation. We can be grateful to the author . . . for this felicitous entree into an important avenue for understanding the abnormal personality.” Contemporary Psychology
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January Hendrik (JH) van den Berg was born June 11, 1914 in Deventer, the Netherlands.
He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1946.
Between 1933 and 1936, he earned diplomas in primary school and high school education, the latter with a focus on mathematics. He also published papers on entomology. He then entered medical school at Utrecht University specializing in psychiatry and neurology.
One year later, after studying in both France and Switzerland, Doctor van den Berg was appointed to Head of Department at the psychiatry clinic at Utrecht.
At Utrecht, he lectured in psychopathology in the medical school and was also appointed to Professor of Pastoral Psychology in the theology department. In 1954, Doctor, van den Berg took a position of Professor of Psychology at Leiden University.
Since 1967, he has been a visiting professor at many universities and conducted lecture tours internationally. He died in Gorinchem.
(“Through the presentation of the behavior of a single cas...)