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Mental Disorders in the Classical World

By William Harris

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2013
ISBN
9004249826, 9789004249820
ISSN
0166-1302
Google Books ID
9by6Yo2AUUYC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3222135 bytes)
Series
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 38
Pages
xviii+512\531
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2013-05-12 14:44:23

Description

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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