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.
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Per la prima volta in un testo italiano si affronta il tema della follia nell'antichità. Per i Greci la follia non era solo una malattia ma anche un mezzo per dilatare la personalità: era lo strumento con cui la Pizia rendeva oracoli a Delfi, stava alla base di culti estatici co…
The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked in discussions of ancient psychology. They have been considered to be more mechanical and less detailed than poetic and philosophical representations, as well as later medical texts such as t…
The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked in discussions of ancient psychology. They have been considered to be more mechanical and less detailed than poetic and philosophical representations, as well as later medical texts such as t…
The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked in discussions of ancient psychology. They have been considered to be more mechanical and less detailed than poetic and philosophical representations, as well as later medical texts such as t…