Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece : The Classical Roots of Modern Psychiatry

by: Simon, B.

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On the babel of tongues in contemporary psychiatry
The development of models of madness
The Greeks and the irrational
Mental life in the homeric epics
Psyche ; Dreams ; Characteristics of mental life ; Disturbances of mental life and behavior ; Relief for distress
Epic as therapy
Mental life in Greek tragedy
Orestes in Aeschylus and Euripides ; The Bacchae of Euripides
Tragedy and therapy
The Wasps of Aristophanes ; The Ajax of Sophocles ; The Heracles of Euripides ; Catharsis and psychotherapy ; Madness and theater
Plato's concept of mind and its disorders
The discovery of the mind: the pre-Socratic background ; The representation of mental activity in the Platonic Dialogues ; Disturbances of the mind ; The origins of madness
The philosopher as therapist
Philosophy as countercharm ; The craft of the philosopher and its institutional setting
Plato and Freud
The Hippocratic corpus
On the sacred disease ; The doctor-patient relationship
Aristotle on melancholy
Hysteria and social issues
Psychoanalytic and clinical psychiatric considerations ; Hysteria in Greek society ; The status of women in Greek society ; Group hysteria: ecstatic possession and Bacchic frenzy ; Plato's account of the wandering uterus ; Motivated ignorance ; Greek medical and biological theories of conception ; Doctors of the body, doctors of the soul
The psychoanalytic and social psychiatric models
The psychoanalytic model ; The social psychiatric model ; Can the psychoanalytic and social psychiatric models be integrated?

Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece : The Classical Roots of Modern Psychiatry

by: Simon, B.

• ISBN-13: 9780801408595 / 978-0-8014-0859-5
• ISBN-03: 0801408598 / 0-8014-0859-8
• Cornell University Press, New Jersey, 1978

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock