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Mental illness in ancient medicine :

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Mental illness in ancient medicine :

[Book]

from Celsus to Paul of Aegina /

edited by Chiara Thumiger and P.N. Singer.

Boston :

Brill,

[2018]

©2018

1 online resource (xv, 479 pages).

Studies in ancient medicine ;

volume 50

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Between insanity and wisdom : perceptions of melancholy in the ps. -- Hippocratic letters 10-17 / George Kazantzidis -- "Not a daimon, but a severe illness" : Oribasius, Posidonius and later ancient perspectives on superhuman agents causing disease / Nadine Metzger -- Athenaeus of Attalia on the psychological causes of bodily health / Sean Coughlin -- Archigenes of Apamea's treatment of mental diseases / Orly Lewis -- Mental perceptions and pathology in the work of Rufus of Ephesus / Melinda Letts -- Mental disorders and psychological suffering in Galen's Cases / Julien Devinant -- Galen on memory, forgetting and memory loss / Ricardo Julião -- Stomachikon, hydrophobia and other eating disturbances : volition and taste in late-antique medical discussions / Chiara Thumiger -- "A most acute, disgusting and indecent disease" : satyriasis and sexual disorders in ancient medicine / Chiara Thumiger -- Mental derangement in methodist nosography : what Caelius Aurelianus had to say / Anna Maria Urso -- Mental illnesses in the medical compilations of late antiquity : the case of Aëtius of Amida / Ricarda Gabel -- Making the distinction : the stoic view of mental illness / Marke Ahonen -- Philosophical psychological therapy : did it have any impact on medical practice? / Christopher Gill -- Galen's pathological soul : diagnosis and therapy in ethical and medical texts and contexts / P.N. Singer.

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Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina traces the history of conceptions of mental disorder in Graeco-Roman medical writings, from the 1st century BCE to the 7th CE, with detailed studies of all significant authors.

Mental illness in ancient medicine.

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Mental illness-- Treatment-- History-- To 1500.

History, Ancient.

Mental Disorders-- history.

Mental Disorders-- therapy.

HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General

MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine

MEDICAL / Diseases

MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine

MEDICAL / Internal Medicine

Mental illness-- Treatment.

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MED-- 014000

MED-- 022000

MED-- 045000

MED-- 112000

Singer, P. N., (Peter N.),1962-

Thumiger, Chiara

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