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Mental Illness Throughout History: a review on the differences between the contemporary world-view and the ancient Greek world

Medicina Internacia Revuo vol 29, 2021

Since the dawn of human Society, Thought has taken a fundamental role in Society. The ancient Greek world created the basis of modern Medicine. This concept is evident inPsychiatry and every field of Medicine and Surgery, not just in terms of the vocabulary and scientific nomenclature but also in the method of investigation and pathology management. This overview aims to evaluate andenhance evidence derived from the current scientific literature that the Ancient Greek world has significantly influenced modern Medicine. Furthermore, we aimed to highlight differences in the treatment and awareness in the past compared with the Modern world. The perception of disease was profoundly different from today due to the lack of scientific knowledge in ancient times. This article has extensive use of primary sources and original texts to analyze the influence of Greek thought on modern Psychiatry. In light of these results, it is essential to highlight the richness of Greek culture regarding medical knowledge, and above all, the observation of mental disease and patient care.

Introduction. Disease Classification and Mental Illness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives

Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine

This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication. For use by the Author only | © 2018 Koninklijke Brill NV 3 By 'classical medicine' we mean the medical texts of the fifth and early fourth centuries BCE, the bulk of the Hippocratic Corpus, as well as other medical authors of the same time frame. 4 Other diseases of mental import can be found in the Hippocratics, notably epilēpsia, lēthargos, and blētos: see Thumiger, C. 'The Early Greek Medical Vocabulary of Insanity' , in Harris, W. (2013) Mental Disorders in the Classical World, 61-95, and (2017) A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought, 45-50 for a list. Phrenitis is however no doubt the most obviously psychiatric (according to our categorization). 5 See on this point Thumiger, 'Early Greek Medical Vocabulary' , 62-70.

Classification, Explanation and Experience: Mental Disorder in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures: Sickness, Health and Local Epistemologies, 2020

This chapter offers an exploration of the nature and principles of ancient Graeco-Roman disease classification. It does so with a particular focus on mental or psychological disorders, though this analysis will be contextualised within the larger picture of Graeco-Roman medical disease classification and its methodology, procedures and aims. Particular attention will be paid to Galen of Pergamon (second century CE) – our richest medical source and also a particularly interesting locus for study of the interface between medical and philosophical approaches – but this author will be considered in close comparison with our other major medical sources for mental disorders in the Roman imperial period, in particular Aulus Cornelius Celsus (first century CE), Aretaeus of Cappadocia (first–second century CE) and Caelius Aurelianus (fifth century CE), and also contextualised through an overview of broader historical developments from the classical (ca. fifth century BCE) to the late antique period (ca. fifth to seventh century CE).

Models of Mind and Mental Illness In Ancient Greece: I. The Homeric Model of Mind

Journal of the History of the Behavioral …, 1966

Each of these models is defined by its own outlook on normal mental function as well as on the nature, causes and treatment of abnormal functioning. The importance of these models for the history of psychiatry and psychology resides mainly in the fact that the problems and ...

Models of mind and mental illness in ancient Greece: II. The platonic model. Section 2

Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences, 1973

Professor of Classics. We thank himfor providing much of the original stimulus for the work as well as such articular ideas as are cited in the notes. Dm. Norman Reider and Morton Reiser (Albert Einstein? and Dr. Joseph Russo (Yale) read drafts in various stages and offered numerous valuable corrections and suggestions.

Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine

Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine, 2018

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