The compellingstory of the quest to understand the human mind?and its diseasesThis engaging presentation of our evolving understanding of the human mind and the meaning of mental illness asks the questions that have fascinated philosophers, researchers, clinicians, and ordinary …
"A piece of intellectual, scientific, and medical history, Theodore Millon's Masters of the Mind takes you on a tour of humankind's attempts to understand itself. Millon, a major figure among today's psychological experts, considers the full scope of mental science, from its pre…
The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce this book aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed, and treated mental disorders.
Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists and their lay contemporaries conceptualized mental disorders and attempted to diagnose, understand and treat them.
The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce this book aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed, and treated mental disorders.
Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists and their lay contemporaries conceptualized mental disorders and attempted to diagnose, understand and treat them.
Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar and a condition that haunts the human imagination. This book provides a useful and concise introduction to the social, cultural, medical and artistic responses to madne…
"Andrew Scull examines the social, historical, and culturally variable response to madness over the centuries, providing a provocative and entertaining examination of mental illness over more than two millennia."--Page [2 de la p. de couv.].
Madness: a very short introduction
"Andrew Scull examines the social, historical, and culturally variable response to madness over the centuries, providing a provocative and entertaining examination of mental illness over more than two millennia"--Front cover flap.