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Title:

Mental disorders in the classical world / edited by W.V. Harris.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xv, 512 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Mental illness.
Mental illness--History.

Other Authors:

Harris, William V. (William Vernon) editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Particular syndromes -- Katja Maria Vogt -- 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 / V©♭ronique 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 --
The rhetoric of the insanity plea / characterizing epilepsy in greek scientific discourse (5th-4th centuries BCE) / Maria Michela Sassi -- Medical epistemology and melancholy : Rufus of Ephesus and Miskawayh / Peter E. Pormann -- 'Quem nos furorem, melancholian illi vocant' : Cicero on melancholy / George Kazantzidis -- Fear of flute girls, fear of falling / Helen King -- Symptoms, cures and therapy -- 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 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 /
Jerry Toner. The psychological impact of disasters in the age of Justinian / Madness in the Digest / Peter Toohey -- The psychological impact of disasters in the age of Justinian / Jerry Toner.

Series:

Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 0166-1302 ; volume 38

ISBN:

9004249826 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004249820 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)825198029

LCCN:

2013000782

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)