Chiara Thumiger

A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9781107176010
• ISBN-10: 1107176018
• Artikelnr.: 48399665

Autorenporträt

Chiara Thumiger is a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick and a Gastwissenschaftlerin in the Department of Classical Philology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on ancient medical approaches to mental health in dialogue with literary sources and modern debates. She is the author of Hidden Paths: Notions of Self, Tragic Characterization and Euripides' Bacchae (2007) and co-editor of Eros in Ancient Greece (with C. Carey, N. Lowe and E. Sanders, 2013) and Homo Patiens: Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World (with G. Petridou, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Mental disorder and history: methodological and general issues
Part I. The Body of the Insane: 2. The body perceived
3. The vital functions and mental life: sleep, food and drink, sex, death
Part II. The Mind of the Insane: 4. Sensory perception and its impairment
5. Personality and personal psychology: emotions, character, reasoning
Conclusions
Appendix: dates and dating.