Mental disorders in the classical world /
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, a...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
Series:
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition
38.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248663.
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Call Number: RC438 .M46 2013eb
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 512 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004249875 |
| ISSN: | 0166-1302 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |