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Informationen zum Autor W.V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of the university's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. He has written widely on psychological aspects of ancient history. In 2008 he received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, which has helped to finance research into mental disorders in antiquity. Contributors: Véronique Boudon-Millot, Christoper Gill, W.V. Harris, Brooke Holmes, Julian C. Hughes, Jacques Jouanna, George Kazantzidis, Helen King, David Konstan, Roberto Lo Presti, Glenn W. Most, Vivian Nutton, Peter Pormann, Suzanne Said, Maria Michela Sassi, Bennett Simon, Chiara Thumiger, Jerry Toner, Peter Toohey, Philip van der Eijk, and Katja Vogt. Klappentext Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists and their lay contemporaries conceptualized mental disorders and attempted to diagnose, understand and treat them. Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; INTRODUCTORY; I. William V. Harris, Thinking about Mental Disorders in Classical Antiquity; CURRENT PROBLEMS IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS; II. Bennett Simon, 'Carving Nature at the Joints': the Dream of a Perfect Classification of Mental Illness III. Julian C. Hughes, If Only the Ancients Had Had the DSM, All Would Have Been Crystal Clear: Reflections on Diagnosis; GREEK CLASSIFICATIONS; IV. Chiara Thumiger, The Early Greek Medical Vocabulary of Insanity: Semantics and Distribution; V. Jacques Jouanna and Veronique Boudon-Millot, The Typology and Etiology of Madness in Ancient Greek Medical and Philosophical Writing; VI. Vivian Nutton, Galenic Madness; VII. Veronique Boudon-Millot, What Is a Mental Illness, and how Can it Be Treated? Galen's Reply as a Doctor and Philosopher; VIII. Brooke Holmes, Disturbing Connections: Sympathetic Affections, Mental Disorder, and the Elusive Soul in Galen; IX. Katja Maria Vogt, Plato on Madness and the Good Life; PARTICULAR SYNDROMES; X. Roberto Lo Presti, Mental Disorder and the Perils of Definition: Characterizing Epilepsy in Greek Scientific Discourse (5th-4th Centuries B.C.E.); XI. Peter E. Pormann, Medical Epistemology and Melancholy: Rufus of Ephesus and Miskawayh; XII. George Kazantzidis, 'Quem nos furorem, muepsilonlambdaalphagammachiomicronlambda alphanu illi vocant': Cicero on Melancholy; XIII. Helen King, Fear of Flute Girls, Fear of Falling; SYMPTOMS, CURES AND THERAPY; XIV. William V. Harris, Greek and Roman Hallucinations; XV. Philip van der Eijk, Cure and the (In)curability of Mental Disorders in Ancient Medical and Philosophical Thought; XVI. Christopher Gill, Philosophical Therapy as Preventive Psychological Medicine; FROM HOMER TO ATTIC TRAGEDY; XVII. Suzanne Said, From Homeric ate to Tragic Madness; XVIII. Glenn W. Most, The Madness of Tragedy; MENTAL DISORDERS AND RESPONSIBILITY; XIX. Maria Michela Sassi, Mental Illness, Moral Error, and Responsibility in Late Plato; XX. David Konstan, The Rhetoric of the Insanity Plea; A ROMAN CODA; XXI. Peter Toohey, Madness in the Digest; XXII. J. P. Toner, The Psychological Impact of Disasters in the Age of Justinian; Bibliography; Index ...
