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"This volume examines the state of psychiatric genetics and charts a path forward for further discovery and translation"--

Mental illness --- Genetic aspects. --- MEDICAL / Mental Health --- MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General --- PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General

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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.

Mental illness. --- Mental illness --- MEDICAL / Mental Health --- MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General --- PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology --- PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness --- PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General --- Madness --- Mental diseases --- Mental disorders --- Disabilities --- Psychology, Pathological --- Mental health --- History. --- Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- History --- Greek medicine --- Medicine, Roman --- Medicine, Unani --- Roman medicine --- Tibb (Medicine) --- Unani medicine --- Unani-Tibb (Medicine) --- Medicine, Ancient