Name: Mental Disorders in the Classical World
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Author: Harris, William V.
ISBN: 9789004249820

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portada Mental Disorders in the Classical World

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Brill

Author

Harris, William V.

Pages

532

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9x16.3x3.3 cm

Weight

0.94 kg.

ISBN13

9789004249820

Synopsis "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, 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.