Mental disorders in the classical world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by W.V. Harris

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453914203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013
• ISBN: 90-04-24987-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (530 p.)
• Collana: Columbia studies in the classical tradition, , 0166-1302 ; ; volume 38
• Altri autori (Persone): HarrisWilliam V (William Vernon)
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetti: Mental illness - Greece - History - To 1500; Mental illness - Rome - History; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-505) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter / W.V. Harris -- Thinking about Mental Disorders in Classical Antiquity / W.V. Harris -- ‘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 -- 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 -- 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, μελαγχολιαν illi vocant’: Cicero on Melancholy / George Kazantzidis -- Fear of Flute Girls, Fear of Falling / Helen King -- 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 Homeric ate to Tragic Madness / Suzanne Saïd -- The Madness of Tragedy / Glenn W. Most -- Mental Illness, Moral Error, and Responsibility in Late Plato / Maria Michela Sassi -- The Rhetoric of the Insanity Plea / David Konstan -- Madness in the Digest / Peter Toohey -- The Psychological Impact of Disasters in the Age of Justinian / Jerry Toner -- Bibliography / W.V. Harris -- Index / W.V. Harris.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.