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Mental disorders in the classical world
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- Creator
- edited by W.V. Harris
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xv, 512 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789004249820, 9004249826, 9004249877, 9789004249875
- OCLC
- ocn841216123, ocn825198029, ocn842262406
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-505) and index.
- 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 / Veronique 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, ... illi vocant' : Cicero on melancholy / George Kazantzidis -- Fear of flute girls, fear of falling / Helen King -- Symptoms, cures and therapy -- Greek and roman hallucinations / 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
Subjects
- Mental illness.
- Mental illness -- History.
- Mental Disorders -- history.
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- Mental Disorders -- classification.
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- History, Ancient.
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