History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical - Though

Informationen zum Autor Chiara Thumiger is a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick and a Gastwissenschaftlerin in the Department of Classical Philology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on ancient medical approaches to mental health in dialogue with literary sources and modern debates. She is the author of Hidden Paths: Notions of Self, Tragic Characterization and Euripides' Bacchae (2007) and co-editor of Eros in Ancient Greece (with C. Carey, N. Lowe and E. Sanders, 2013) and Homo Patiens: Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World (with G. Petridou, 2015). Klappentext The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates. Zusammenfassung The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine. Demonstrating the richness and sophistication of the accounts in the Hippocratic texts and other medical sources! this book explores their connections with contemporary metaphysical discussions in tragedy and Plato as well as their relevance for modern debates in psychiatry and psychology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Mental disorder and history: methodological and general issues; Part I. The Body of the Insane: 2. The body perceived; 3. The vital functions and mental life: sleep, food and drink, sex, death; Part II. The Mind of the Insane: 4. Sensory perception and its impairment; 5. Personality and personal psychology: emotions, character, reasoning; Conclusions; Appendix: dates and dating.

Product details

• Authors: Chiara Thumiger, Chiara (University of Warwick) Thumiger, Thumiger Chiara
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107176010
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17601-0
• No. of pages: 510
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Ancient Greece, MEDICAL / History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Psychiatry, History of Medicine, History of Science, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory