Ancient Psychology And Psychiatry
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| Author | : Farhad Pour-Golafshan |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 115 |
| Release | : 2012-08-14 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1477155880 |
When it comes to ancient medical sciences misunderstandings and confusion prevails. Everything and anything is claimed to be cure for this or that. In this confusion many opportunists including some medical doctors are making big gains, fast. Ultimately it is the consumer and the sick who are the biggest losers under such circumstances. This book is attempting to set some benchmarks for identification and evaluation of ancient medical sciences in general, and ancient psychology and psychiatry in particular, and their specific treatments, in order to help minimize the current confusion. There is a detailed treatment of the history of sciences both ancient and modern as it is required for understanding the present situation. As examples, the ancient treatments of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for a few psychological disorders are provided in some depth. There is also an extensive discussion on Evolution Theory, Darwinism, and Progressivism as the historical background that has lead to the current situation.
| Author | : Marke Ahonen |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2014-01-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3319034316 |
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 | : Edwin R. Wallace |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 883 |
| Release | : 2010-04-13 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0387347089 |
This book chronicles the conceptual and methodological facets of psychiatry and medical psychology throughout history. There are no recent books covering so wide a time span. Many of the facets covered are pertinent to issues in general medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and the social sciences today. The divergent emphases and interpretations among some of the contributors point to the necessity for further exploration and analysis.
| Author | : Bennett Simon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Greece |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Giuseppe Roccatagliata |
| Publisher | : Praeger |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1986-02-21 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Chiara Thumiger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 513 |
| Release | : 2017-06-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107176018 |
The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.
| Author | : William V. Harris |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 530 |
| Release | : 2013-03-15 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9004249877 |
The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce Mental Disorders in the Classical World aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed and treated mental disorders. The Greeks initiated the secular understanding of mental illness, and have left us a large body of penetrating and thought-provoking writing on the subject, ranging in time from Homer to the sixth century AD. With the conceptual basis of modern psychiatry once again under intense debate, we need to learn from other rational approaches even when they lack modern scientific underpinnings. Meanwhile this volume adds a rich chapter to the cultural and medical history of antiquity. The contributors include a high proportion of the best-regarded scholars in this field, together with papers by some of its rising stars.
| Author | : Riadh Abed |
| Publisher | : RCPsych Publications |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2022-09-29 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1009035010 |
Evolutionary psychiatry attempts to explain and examine the development and prevalence of psychiatric disorders through the lens of evolutionary and adaptationist theories. In this edited volume, leading international evolutionary scholars present a variety of Darwinian perspectives that will encourage readers to consider 'why' as well as 'how' mental disorders arise. Using insights from comparative animal evolution, ethology, anthropology, culture, philosophy and other humanities, evolutionary thinking helps us to re-evaluate psychiatric epidemiology, genetics, biochemistry and psychology. It seeks explanations for persistent heritable traits shaped by selection and other evolutionary processes, and reviews traits and disorders using phylogenetic history and insights from the neurosciences as well as the effects of the modern environment. By bridging the gap between social and biological approaches to psychiatry, and encouraging bringing the evolutionary perspective into mainstream psychiatry, this book will help to inspire new avenues of research into the causation and treatment of mental disorders.
| Author | : Clifford Whittingham Beers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 1917 |
| Genre | : Mental illness |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tom Dening |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 961 |
| Release | : 2020-11-05 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0198807295 |
Part of the authoritative Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry series, Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the developments in old age psychiatry since publication of the Second Edition in 2013, and remains an essential reference for anyone interested in the mental health care of older people.
