Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy

• Main Author: Ahonen, Marke (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind ; 13
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy of mind.; Cognitive psychology.; Psychology.; Philosophy of Mind.; Cognitive Psychology.; History of Psychology.

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, str...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Medical and Cultural Background
• Chapter 2. Plato on madness and mental disorders
• Chapter 3. The Aristotelian concept of mental disorders
• Chapter 4. The Stoics on the kinds of madness
• Chapter 5. Galen on the diseases of the mind and soul
• Chapter 6. Other philosophical traditions
• Appendix A. Aristotle and Caelius Aurelianus on homosexuality
• Appendix B. Philosophers as mental patients in ancient tradition.