Mental disorders in the classical world

著者

• Harris, William V. (William Vernon)

書誌事項

Mental disorders in the classical world

edited by W.V. Harris

（Columbia studies in the classical tradition, v. 38）

Brill, 2013

• : hardback

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-505) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Abbreviations INTRODUCTORY I. William V. Harris, Thinking about Mental Disorders in Classical Antiquity CURRENT PROBLEMS IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS II. Bennett Simon, 'Carving Nature at the Joints': the Dream of a Perfect Classification of Mental Illness III. Julian C. Hughes, If Only the Ancients Had Had the DSM, All Would Have Been Crystal Clear: Reflections on Diagnosis GREEK CLASSIFICATIONS IV. Chiara Thumiger, The Early Greek Medical Vocabulary of Insanity: Semantics and Distribution V. Jacques Jouanna and Veronique Boudon-Millot, The Typology and Etiology of Madness in Ancient Greek Medical and Philosophical Writing VI. Vivian Nutton, Galenic Madness VII. Veronique Boudon-Millot, What Is a Mental Illness, and how Can it Be Treated? Galen's Reply as a Doctor and Philosopher VIII. Brooke Holmes, Disturbing Connections: Sympathetic Affections, Mental Disorder, and the Elusive Soul in Galen IX. Katja Maria Vogt, Plato on Madness and the Good Life PARTICULAR SYNDROMES X. Roberto Lo Presti, Mental Disorder and the Perils of Definition: Characterizing Epilepsy in Greek Scientific Discourse (5th-4th Centuries B.C.E.) XI. Peter E. Pormann, Medical Epistemology and Melancholy: Rufus of Ephesus and Miskawayh XII. George Kazantzidis, 'Quem nos furorem, illi vocant': Cicero on Melancholy XIII. Helen King, Fear of Flute Girls, Fear of Falling SYMPTOMS, CURES AND THERAPY XIV. William V. Harris, Greek and Roman Hallucinations XV. Philip van der Eijk, Cure and the (In)curability of Mental Disorders in Ancient Medical and Philosophical Thought XVI. Christopher Gill, Philosophical Therapy as Preventive Psychological Medicine FROM HOMER TO ATTIC TRAGEDY XVII. Suzanne Said, From Homeric ate to Tragic Madness XVIII. Glenn W. Most, The Madness of Tragedy MENTAL DISORDERS AND RESPONSIBILITY XIX. Maria Michela Sassi, Mental Illness, Moral Error, and Responsibility in Late Plato XX. David Konstan, The Rhetoric of the Insanity Plea A ROMAN CODA XXI. Peter Toohey, Madness in the Digest XXII. J. P. Toner, The Psychological Impact of Disasters in the Age of Justinian Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB12202794
• ISBN:
  • 9789004249820
• LCCN: 2013000782
• 出版国コード: ne
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Leiden
• ページ数/冊数: xv, 512 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : RC438
  • DC23 : 616.89
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Mental illness
  • LCSH : Mental illness -- History
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA01120690