Dreams Healing And Medicine In Greece

Author : Steven M. Oberhelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148050

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Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece by Steven M. Oberhelman Pdf

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, ’magical’ methods (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells), and home remedies. This volume examines how in Greek culture dreams have played an integral part in formal and non-formal means of healing. The papers are organized into three major diachronic periods. The first group focuses on the classical Greek through late Roman Greek periods. Topics include dreams in the Hippocratic corpus; the cult of the god Asclepius and its healing centers, with their incubation and miracle dream-cures; dreams in the writings of Galen and other medical writers of the Roman Empire; and medical dreams in popular oneirocritic texts, especially the second-century C.E. dreambook by Artemidorus of Daldis, the most noted professional dream interpreter of antiquity. The second group of papers looks to the Christian Byzantine era, when dream incubation and dream healings were practised at churches and shrines, carried out by living and dead saints. Also discussed are dreams as a medical tool used by physicians in their hospital praxis and in the practical medical texts (iatrosophia) that they and laypeople consulted for the healing of disease. The final papers deal with dreams and healing in Greece from the Turkish period of Greece down to the current day in the Greek islands. The concluding chapter brings the book a full circle by discussing how modern psychotherapists and psychologists use Ascelpian dream-rituals on pilgrimages to Greece.

Author : Steven M. Oberhelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148067

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Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece by Steven M. Oberhelman Pdf

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, ’magical’ methods (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells), and home remedies. This volume examines how in Greek culture dreams have played an integral part in formal and non-formal means of healing. The papers are organized into three major diachronic periods. The first group focuses on the classical Greek through late Roman Greek periods. Topics include dreams in the Hippocratic corpus; the cult of the god Asclepius and its healing centers, with their incubation and miracle dream-cures; dreams in the writings of Galen and other medical writers of the Roman Empire; and medical dreams in popular oneirocritic texts, especially the second-century C.E. dreambook by Artemidorus of Daldis, the most noted professional dream interpreter of antiquity. The second group of papers looks to the Christian Byzantine era, when dream incubation and dream healings were practised at churches and shrines, carried out by living and dead saints. Also discussed are dreams as a medical tool used by physicians in their hospital praxis and in the practical medical texts (iatrosophia) that they and laypeople consulted for the healing of disease. The final papers deal with dreams and healing in Greece from the Turkish period of Greece down to the current day in the Greek islands. The concluding chapter brings the book a full circle by discussing how modern psychotherapists and psychologists use Ascelpian dream-rituals on pilgrimages to Greece.

Author : Edward Tick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Dreams
ISBN : OCLC:1150962842

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The Practice of Dream Healing by Edward Tick Pdf

Author : Edward Tick
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0835607992

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The Practice of Dream Healing by Edward Tick Pdf

Asklepios was the gentle Greek god of healing. Like Christ, he was said to have walked the earth performing miracle cures. His medicine was practiced by priests who interpreted patients' dreams in which the god gave advice. Dr. Tick's classic work explores dream-healing techniques from this ancient tradition.

Author : Vian Bakir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1409422569

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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror by Vian Bakir Pdf

This book examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors) over their use of torture to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring the agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting case studies of key media events from the UK and USA, it examines dominant political discourses on the torture-for-intelligence policy and evaluates various modes of resistance to governmentsOCO attempts at strategic political communication, with particular attention to OCysousveillanceOCO: community-based recording from first-person perspectives. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in media, sociology, political communication, international relations, and journalism."

Author : C. A. Meier
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aesculepis (Greek deity)
ISBN : 9783856307271

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Healing Dream and Ritual by C. A. Meier Pdf

C A Meier investigates the ancient Greek understanding of dreams and dreaming, Antique incubation and concomitant rituals. In this greatly expanded version of his classic work, Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy, Meier compares Asklepian divine medicine with our own contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches to dreaming. He elucidates how the healing cure was found in the very core of illness itself -- a fact of invaluable significance today in both medicine and psychology. In helping us to recognise the suprapersonal aspects of illness, the dream is shown to reveal a transcendental path to healing.

Author : Gil Renberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004330238

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Where Dreams May Come (2 vol. set) by Gil Renberg Pdf

In this book, Gil H. Renberg analyzes in detail the vast range of sources for “incubation,” dream-divination at a divinity’s sanctuary or shrine, beginning in Sumerian times but primarily focussing on the Greeks and Greco-Roman Egypt.

Author : Bronwen L. Wickkiser
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801889783

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Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece by Bronwen L. Wickkiser Pdf

Delving deeply into ancient medical history, Bronwen L. Wickkiser explores the early development and later spread of the cult of Asklepios, one of the most popular healing gods in the ancient Mediterranean. Though Asklepios had been known as a healer since the time of Homer, evidence suggests that large numbers of people began to flock to the cult during the fifth century BCE, just as practitioners of Hippocratic medicine were gaining dominance. Drawing on close readings of period medical texts, literary sources, archaeological evidence, and earlier studies, Wickkiser finds two primary causes for the cult’s ascendance: it filled a gap in the market created by the refusal of Hippocratic physicians to treat difficult chronic ailments and it abetted Athenian political needs. Wickkiser supports these challenging theories with side-by-side examinations of the medical practices at Asklepios' sanctuaries and those espoused in Hippocratic medical treatises. She also explores how Athens' aspirations to empire influenced its decision to open the city to the healer-god's cult. In focusing on the fifth century and by considering the medical, political, and religious dimensions of the cult of Asklepios, Wickkiser presents a complex, nuanced picture of Asklepios' rise in popularity, Athenian society, and ancient Mediterranean culture. The intriguing and sometimes surprising information she presents will be valued by historians of medicine and classicists alike.

Author : Stephanie Holton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429559198

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Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought by Stephanie Holton Pdf

This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought, highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers on both phenomena as more varied, complex, and substantial than is usually credited. It explores how the Presocratic natural philosophers and early Hippocratic medical writers developed theories which drew from wider investigations into physiology and psychology, the natural world and the self, while also engaging with wider literary depictions and established cultural beliefs. Although the focus is predominantly on Presocratic and Hippocratic ideas, this is not exclusive: attention is devoted from the outset to sleep and dreams in Homer and the mythic tradition, as well as to depictions across lyric, drama, and historiography. Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought provides a fascinating study of this topic which will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient medicine and the history of science, Greek philosophy, and classical culture more broadly. It is accessible to students with or without knowledge of the classical languages, and also to anyone with a general interest in the beliefs of the classical world.

Author : Mark Holowchak
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0761821570

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Ancient Science and Dreams by Mark Holowchak Pdf

In Ancient Science and Dreams, M. Andrew Holowchak analyzes the ancient notion of science of dreams throughout Greco-Roman antiquity, from the Classical Greece in the fifth century B.C. to the Roman Republic in the fourth century A.D. Holowchak investigates psycho-physiological accounts, interpretation of prophetic dreams, and the use of dreams in secular and non-secular medicine. Culling from some of the fullest and most important accounts of dreams and ordering the presentation in each section chronologically, the author analyzes the extent to which empirical and non-empirical factors guided ancient accounts in Greco-Roman antiquity.

Author : Kimberly R. Mascaro
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781476687438

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Dream Medicine by Kimberly R. Mascaro Pdf

This book surveys both the scientific and the spiritual terrain of altered states of consciousness, highlighting how extrasensory encounters can be soul-healing balm. It explores a wide range of cultural interpretations of out-of-body experiences, from shamanistic practices to the importance of dreams in ancient world cultures. A dozen or more interviews with health-related professionals present unique, holistic glimpses of our inner lives. Dreaming takes center stage, with the author presenting her most profound and insidious dreams. Part reference work and part guidebook, this book tells readers how to make the most of their dream experiences through a variety of techniques like incubation, talisman creation, tarot and more.

Author : Kristi Upson-Saia,Heidi Marx,Jared Secord
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Medicine, Greek and Roman
ISBN : 9780520299726

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Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE) by Kristi Upson-Saia,Heidi Marx,Jared Secord Pdf

"This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. It includes a wide-ranging collection of textual sources - many hard to access, and some translated into English for the first time - as well as artistic, material, and scientific evidence. Introductory chapters and accompanying commentary provide substantial context, making the sourcebook accessible to readers at all levels. Readers will come away with a broad sense of the illnesses people in ancient Greece and Rome experienced, the range of healers from whom they sought help, and the various practices they employed to be healthy"--

Author : Juliette Harrisson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441176332

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Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire by Juliette Harrisson Pdf

An investigation into dream reports in the history and literature of early Roman culture.

Author : Dr Nigel Nicholson,Dr Nathan Selden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190457495

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The Rhetoric of Medicine by Dr Nigel Nicholson,Dr Nathan Selden Pdf

The Rhetoric of Medicine explores problems that confront medical professionals today by first examining similar problems that confronted physicians in ancient Greece. This framework provides illuminating entry points into challenges faced by the practice of medicine, enabling readers to understand more clearly their shape and operation in the modern context-as well as their possible solutions. Topics covered include: larger cultural ideas about the body; tension between professional values and working for money; effective collaboration and competition with alternative healthcare providers; restrictions on political involvement that are part of a physician's identity; maintaining a space for professional autonomy and judgment; mentoring that is effective but not exclusive; and physicians' recognition of themselves as patients as well as professionals. A unique collaboration between a classicist and a neurosurgeon, The Rhetoric of Medicine is a call to interrogate the narratives and ideas that shape medical care and to revise and replace those that do not serve patient health.

Author : Chiara Thumiger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176010

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The Life and Health of the Mind in Classical Greek Medical Thought by Chiara Thumiger Pdf

The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.