Mental Disorders In Ancient Philosophy

Author : Marke Ahonen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319034317

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Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy by Marke Ahonen Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive study of the views of ancient philosophers on mental disorders. Relying on the original Greek and Latin textual sources, the author describes and analyses how the ancient philosophers explained mental illness and its symptoms, including hallucinations, delusions, strange fears and inappropriate moods and how they accounted for the respective roles of body and mind in such disorders. Also considered are ethical questions relating to mental illness, approaches to treatment and the position of mentally ill people in societies of the times. The volume opens with a historical overview that examines ancient medical accounts of mental illness, from Hippocrates' famous Sacred Disease to late antiquity medical authors. Separate chapters interpret in detail the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Galen and the Stoics and a final chapter summarises the views of various strains of Scepticism, the Epicurean school and the Middle and Neo-Platonists. Offering an important and useful contribution to the study of ancient philosophy, psychology and medicine. This volume sheds new light on the history of mental illness and presents a new angle on ancient philosophical psychology.

Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004249875

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Mental Disorders in the Classical World by William V. Harris Pdf

Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists and their lay contemporaries conceptualized mental disorders and attempted to diagnose, understand and treat them.

Author : Marke Ahonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 952923919X

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Ancient Philosophers on Mental Illness by Marke Ahonen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004362260

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Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Chiara Thumiger,Peter N. Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : 900436272X

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Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine by Chiara Thumiger,Peter N. Singer Pdf

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.

Author : Allan V. Horwitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190907877

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Between Sanity and Madness by Allan V. Horwitz Pdf

Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental disorders from normality; whether mental illnesses are similar to or different from organic conditions; and the ways in which different eras conceive of the causes of mental disorder. It begins with the earliest depictions of mental illness in Ancient Greek literature, philosophy, and medicine and concludes with the portrayals found in modern neuroscience. In contrast to the tremendous advances other branches of medicine display in answering questions about the nature, causes, and treatments of physical diseases, current psychiatric knowledge about what qualities of madness distinguish it from sanity, the resemblance of mental and physical pathologies, and the kinds of factors that lead people to become mentally ill does not show any steady growth or, arguably, much progress. The immense recent technological advances in brain science have not yet led to corresponding improvements in understandings of and explanations for mental illnesses. These perplexing phenomena remain almost as mysterious now as they were millennia ago.

Author : Chiara Thumiger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

Author : Chiara Thumiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HEALTH & FITNESS
ISBN : 1316816745

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A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought by Chiara Thumiger Pdf

The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked in discussions of ancient psychology. They have been considered to be more mechanical and less detailed than poetic and philosophical representations, as well as later medical texts such as those of Galen. This book does justice to these early medical accounts by demonstrating their richness and sophistication, their many connections with other contemporary cultural products and the indebtedness of later medicine to their observations. In addition, it reads these sources not only as archaeological documents but also in the light of methodological discussions that are fundamental to the histories of psychiatry and psychology. As a result of this approach, the book will be important for scholars of these disciplines as well as those of Greek literature and philosophy, strongly advocating the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.

Author : Abraham Rudnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199691319

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Recovery of People with Mental Illness by Abraham Rudnick Pdf

It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and researched. This book is unique in addressing philosophical issues - including conceptual challenges and opportunities - raised by the notion of recovery of people with mental illness.

Author : Dan J. Stein
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323904391

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Problems of Living by Dan J. Stein Pdf

Problems of Living: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Cognitive-Affective Science addresses philosophical questions related to problems of living, including questions about the nature of the brain-mind, reason and emotion, happiness and suffering, goodness and truth, and the meaning of life. It draws on critical, pragmatic, and embodied realism as well as moral naturalism, and brings arguments from metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics together with data from cognitive-affective science. This multidisciplinary integrated approach provides a novel framework for considering not only the nature of mental disorders, but also broader issues in mental health, such as finding pleasure and purpose in life. Draws on the strongest aspects of polar positions in philosophy and psychiatry to help resolve important perennial debates in these fields Explores continuities between early philosophical work and current cognitive-affective sciences, including neuroscience and psychology Employs findings from modern cognitive-affective science to rethink key long-standing debates in philosophy and psychiatry Builds on work showing how mind is embodied in the brain, and embedded in society, to provide an integrated conceptual framework Assesses both the insights and the limitations of cognitive-affective science for addressing the big questions and hard problems of living

Author : Richard Gipps
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1341 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199579563

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry by Richard Gipps Pdf

Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry offers the most comprehensive reference resource for this area every published - one that is essential for both students and researchers in this field.

Author : Derek Bolton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780198565925

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What is Mental Disorder? by Derek Bolton Pdf

With a new edition of the 'bibles' of psychiatric diagnosis - the ICD and DSM - under development, it is timely to take a step back and evaluate how we diagnose and define mental disorder. This new book by Derek Bolton tackles the problems involved in the definition and boundaries of mental disorder.

Author : George Kazantzidis,Dimos Spatharas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110772012

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Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity by George Kazantzidis,Dimos Spatharas Pdf

This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professional and scientific explanatory models of emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down possible interfaces and differences between systematic and lay cultural understandings of emotions. Although the volume emphasizes the multifaceted links between medicine and ancient philosophical thinking, especially ethics, it also pays due attention to the representation of patients' feelings in the extant medical treatises and doctors' emotional reticence. The chapters that constitute this volume investigate a great range of medical writers including Hippocrates and the Hippocratics, and Galen, while comparative approaches to medical writings and philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, dwell on the notion of wonder/admiration (thauma), conceptualizations of the body and the soul, and the category pathos itself. The volume also sheds light on the metaphorical uses of medicine in ancient thinking.

Author : Kenneth S. Kendler,Josef Parnas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780192515537

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Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry IV by Kenneth S. Kendler,Josef Parnas Pdf

The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the issue of nosology. This interest has been further heightened by a series of controversies associated with the development of DSM-5 including the fate of proposed revisions of the personality disorders, bereavement, and the autism spectrum. Major debate arose within the DSM process about the criteria for changing criteria, leading to the creation of first the Scientific Review Committee and then a series of other oversight committees which weighed in on the final debates on the most controversial proposed additions to DSM-5, providing important influences on the final decisions. Contained within these debates were a range of conceptual and philosophical issues. Some of these - such as the definition of mental disorder or the problems of psychiatric " - have been with the field for a long time. Others - the concept of epistemic iteration as a framework for the introduction of nosologic change - are quite new. This book reviews issues within psychiatric nosology from clinical, historical and particularly philosophical perspectives. The book brings together a range of distinguished authors - including major psychiatric researchers, clinicians, historians and especially nosologists - including several leaders of the DSM-5 effort and the DSM Steering Committee. It also includes contributions from psychologists with a special interest in psychiatric nosology and philosophers with a wide range of orientations. The book is organized into four major sections: The first explores the nature of psychiatric illness and the way in which it is defined, including clinical and psychometric perspectives. The second section examines problems in the reification of psychiatric diagnostic criteria, the problem of psychiatric epidemics, and the nature and definition of individual symptoms. The third section explores the concept of epistemic iteration as a possible governing conceptual framework for the revision efforts for official psychiatric nosologies such as DSM and ICD and the problems of validation of psychiatric diagnoses. The book ends by exploring how we might move from the descriptive to the etiologic in psychiatric diagnoses, the nature of progress in psychiatric research, and the possible benefits of moving to a living document (or continuous improvement) model for psychiatric nosologic systems. The result is a book that captures the dynamic cross-disciplinary interactions that characterize the best work in the philosophy of psychiatry.

Author : Marcelo D. Boeri,Yasuhira Y. Kanayama,Jorge Mittelmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319785479

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Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychological Issues in Plato and Aristotle by Marcelo D. Boeri,Yasuhira Y. Kanayama,Jorge Mittelmann Pdf

This book offers new insights into the workings of the human soul and the philosophical conception of the mind in Ancient Greece. It collects essays that deal with different but interconnected aspects of that unified picture of our mental life shared by all Ancient philosophers who thought of the soul as an immaterial substance. The papers present theoretical discussions on moral and psychological issues ranging from Socrates to Aristotle, and beyond, in connection with modern psychology. Coverage includes moral learning and the fruitfulness of punishment, human motivation, emotions as psychic phenomena, and more. Some of these topics directly stemmed from the Socratic dialectical experience and its tragic outcome, whereas others found their way through a complex history of refinements, disputes, and internal critique. The contributors present the gradual unfolding of these central themes through a close inspection of the relevant Ancient texts. They deliver a wide-ranging survey of some central and mutually related topics. In the process, readers will learn new approaches to Platonic and Aristotelian psychology and action theory. This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in Ancient philosophy. Any scholar with a general interest in the history of ideas will also find it a valuable resource.