TY - BOOK ID - 77940142 TI - Mental disorders in the classical world PY - 2013 SN - 9004249877 9789004249875 9781299468177 1299468179 9789004249820 9004249826 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Mental illness. KW - Mental illness KW - MEDICAL / Mental Health KW - MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General KW - PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology KW - PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness KW - PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General KW - Madness KW - Mental diseases KW - Mental disorders KW - Disabilities KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Mental health KW - History. KW - Medicine, Greek and Roman. KW - History KW - Greek medicine KW - Medicine, Roman KW - Medicine, Unani KW - Roman medicine KW - Tibb (Medicine) KW - Unani medicine KW - Unani-Tibb (Medicine) KW - Medicine, Ancient UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77940142 AB - 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. ER -