Mental disorders in the classical world /
Mental disorders in the classical world /
edited by W.V. Harris.
- 1 online resource (xv, 512 pages)
- Columbia studies in the classical tradition, v. 38 0166-1302 ; .
- Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 38. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248663. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter / Thinking about Mental Disorders in Classical Antiquity / ‘Carving Nature at the Joints’: The Dream of a Perfect Classification of Mental Illness / If Only the Ancients Had Had DSM, All Would Have Been Crystal Clear: Reflections on Diagnosis / The Early Greek Medical Vocabulary of Insanity / The Typology and Aetiology of Madness in Ancient Greek Medical and Philosophical Writing / Galenic Madness / What Is a Mental Illness, and How Can It Be Treated? Galen’s Reply as a Doctor and Philosopher / Disturbing Connections: Sympathetic Affections, Mental Disorder, and the Elusive Soul in Galen / Plato on Madness and the Good Life / Mental Disorder and the Perils of Definition: Characterizing Epilepsy in Greek Scientific Discourse (5th–4th Centuries BCE) / Medical Epistemology and Melancholy: Rufus of Ephesus and Miskawayh / ‘Quem nos furorem, μελαγχολιαν illi vocant’: Cicero on Melancholy / Fear of Flute Girls, Fear of Falling / Greek and Roman Hallucinations / Cure and (In)curability of Mental Disorders in Ancient Medical and Philosophical Thought / Philosophical Therapy as Preventive Psychological Medicine / From Homeric ate to Tragic Madness / The Madness of Tragedy / Mental Illness, Moral Error, and Responsibility in Late Plato / The Rhetoric of the Insanity Plea / Madness in the Digest / The Psychological Impact of Disasters in the Age of Justinian / Bibliography / Index / W.V. Harris -- W.V. Harris -- Bennett Simon -- Julian C. Hughes -- Chiara Thumiger -- Jacques Jouanna -- Vivian Nutton -- Véronique Boudon-Millot -- Brooke Holmes -- Katja Maria Vogt -- Roberto Lo Presti -- Peter E. Pormann -- George Kazantzidis -- Helen King -- W.V. Harris -- Philip van der Eijk -- Christopher Gill -- Suzanne Saïd -- Glenn W. Most -- Maria Michela Sassi -- David Konstan -- Peter Toohey -- Jerry Toner -- W.V. Harris -- W.V. Harris.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce Mental Disorders in the Classical World aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed and treated mental disorders. The Greeks initiated the secular understanding of mental illness, and have left us a large body of penetrating and thought-provoking writing on the subject, ranging in time from Homer to the sixth century AD. With the conceptual basis of modern psychiatry once again under intense debate, we need to learn from other rational approaches even when they lack modern scientific underpinnings. Meanwhile this volume adds a rich chapter to the cultural and medical history of antiquity. The contributors include a high proportion of the best-regarded scholars in this field, together with papers by some of its rising stars.
9789004249875
10.1163/9789004249875 DOI
Mental illness.
Mental illness--History.
MEDICAL / Mental Health
MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General
PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness
PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General
RC438 / .M46 2013eb
616.89
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter / Thinking about Mental Disorders in Classical Antiquity / ‘Carving Nature at the Joints’: The Dream of a Perfect Classification of Mental Illness / If Only the Ancients Had Had DSM, All Would Have Been Crystal Clear: Reflections on Diagnosis / The Early Greek Medical Vocabulary of Insanity / The Typology and Aetiology of Madness in Ancient Greek Medical and Philosophical Writing / Galenic Madness / What Is a Mental Illness, and How Can It Be Treated? Galen’s Reply as a Doctor and Philosopher / Disturbing Connections: Sympathetic Affections, Mental Disorder, and the Elusive Soul in Galen / Plato on Madness and the Good Life / Mental Disorder and the Perils of Definition: Characterizing Epilepsy in Greek Scientific Discourse (5th–4th Centuries BCE) / Medical Epistemology and Melancholy: Rufus of Ephesus and Miskawayh / ‘Quem nos furorem, μελαγχολιαν illi vocant’: Cicero on Melancholy / Fear of Flute Girls, Fear of Falling / Greek and Roman Hallucinations / Cure and (In)curability of Mental Disorders in Ancient Medical and Philosophical Thought / Philosophical Therapy as Preventive Psychological Medicine / From Homeric ate to Tragic Madness / The Madness of Tragedy / Mental Illness, Moral Error, and Responsibility in Late Plato / The Rhetoric of the Insanity Plea / Madness in the Digest / The Psychological Impact of Disasters in the Age of Justinian / Bibliography / Index / W.V. Harris -- W.V. Harris -- Bennett Simon -- Julian C. Hughes -- Chiara Thumiger -- Jacques Jouanna -- Vivian Nutton -- Véronique Boudon-Millot -- Brooke Holmes -- Katja Maria Vogt -- Roberto Lo Presti -- Peter E. Pormann -- George Kazantzidis -- Helen King -- W.V. Harris -- Philip van der Eijk -- Christopher Gill -- Suzanne Saïd -- Glenn W. Most -- Maria Michela Sassi -- David Konstan -- Peter Toohey -- Jerry Toner -- W.V. Harris -- W.V. Harris.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce Mental Disorders in the Classical World aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed and treated mental disorders. The Greeks initiated the secular understanding of mental illness, and have left us a large body of penetrating and thought-provoking writing on the subject, ranging in time from Homer to the sixth century AD. With the conceptual basis of modern psychiatry once again under intense debate, we need to learn from other rational approaches even when they lack modern scientific underpinnings. Meanwhile this volume adds a rich chapter to the cultural and medical history of antiquity. The contributors include a high proportion of the best-regarded scholars in this field, together with papers by some of its rising stars.
9789004249875
10.1163/9789004249875 DOI
Mental illness.
Mental illness--History.
MEDICAL / Mental Health
MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General
PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness
PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General
RC438 / .M46 2013eb
616.89