Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: In these three volumes, a team of scholars provides a thoughtful history of abnormal psychology, demonstrating how concepts regarding disordered mental states, their causes, and their treatments developed and evolved across the ages...read more

Product Description: Did pre-historic societies experience mental illness? And what made it completely different from how it is perceived today? Proves that there are psychiatric conditions of interest in the religious experiences of pre-historic times...read more

Product Description: Ce livre est le compagnon inseparable de La Maladie de l'ame. Il a une finalite: donner, de maniere la plus claire possible, ce qui va etre pour des siecles l'outillage de la reflexion des medecins sur la folie. L'histoire de la medecine est, pour une grande part, jusqu'a une periode assez proche, une histoire des textes et de leur interpretation dans laquelle philologie et medecine collaborent...read more

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Product Description: Ferit Güven illuminates the historically constitutive roles of madness and death in philosophy by examining them in the light of contemporary discussions of the intersection of power and knowledge and ethical relations with the other...read more

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Product Description: This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "healthy" bodies from those that are "ill"."Gilman tells an excellent tale."—Jewish Chronicle

Product Description: "Fascinating and important . . . a work of prodigious scholarship, covering the entire history of Western thought and treating both literary and medical discourses with subtlety and verve."---Louis Sass, author of Madness and Modernism"The scope of this book is daunting, ranging from madness in the ancient Greco-Roman world, to Christianized concepts of medieval folly, through the writings of early modern authors such as Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes, and on to German Romantic philosophy, fin de siècle French poetry, and Freud ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show "that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This edited volume of nineteen articles brings for the first time to an English speaking audience the work of important writers in the Spanish, French, and German who note the concepts and treatments of mental disease in the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Gilman, Sander L.