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Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists and their lay contemporaries conceptualized mental disorders and attempted to diagnose, understand and treat them.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harris, William V. (William Vernon) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; volume 38.
Temas:
Mental illness.
Mental illness > History.
Mental Disorders > history
Mental Disorders > classification
History, Ancient
Mental Disorders
Maladies mentales.
Maladies mentales > Histoire.
mental disorders.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Thinking about mental disorders in classical antiquity / W.V. Harris
  • Current problems in the classification of mental illness
  • 'Carving nature at the joints' : the dream of a perfect classification of mental illness / Bennett Simon
  • If only the ancients had had DSM, all would have been crystal clear : reflections on diagnosis / Julian C. Hughes
  • Greek classification
  • The early greek medical vocabulary of insanity / Chiara Thumiger
  • The typology and aetiology of madness in ancient greek medical and philosophical writing / Jacques Jouanna
  • Galenic madness / Vivian Nutton
  • What is a mental illness, and how can it be treated? Galen's reply as a doctor and philosopher / Véronique Boudon-Millot
  • Disturbing connections : sympathetic affections, mental disorder, and the elusive soul in Galen / Brooke Holmes
  • Plato on madness and the good life / Katja Maria Vogt
  • Particular syndromes
  • Mental disorder and the perils of definition : characterizing epilepsy in greek scientific discourse (5th-4th centuries BCE) / Roberto Lo Presti
  • Medical epistemology and melancholy : Rufus of Ephesus and Miskawayh / Peter E. Pormann
  • 'Quem nos furorem, melancholian illi vocant' : Cicero on melancholy / George Kazantzidis
  • Fear of flute girls, fear of falling / Helen King
  • Symptoms, cures and therapy
  • Greek and roman hallucinations / W.V. Harris
  • Cure and (in)curability of mental disorders in ancient medical and philosophical thought / Philip van der Eijk
  • Philosophical therapy as preventive psychological medicine / Christopher Gill
  • From homer to attic tragedy
  • From homeric ate to tragic madness / Suzanne Said
  • The madness of tragedy / Glenn W. Most
  • Mental disorders and responsibility
  • Mental illness, moral error, and responsibility in late Plato / Maria Michela Sassi
  • The rhetoric of the insanity plea / David Konstan
  • A roman coda
  • Madness in the Digest / Peter Toohey
  • The psychological impact of disasters in the age of Justinian / Jerry Toner.

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