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Between Sanity and Madness - Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era (Hardcover)
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Between Sanity and Madness - Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era (Hardcover)
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Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to
the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about
mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental
disorders from normality; whether mental illnesses are similar to
or different from organic conditions; and the ways in which
different eras conceive of the causes of mental disorder. It begins
with the earliest depictions of mental illness in Ancient Greek
literature, philosophy, and medicine and concludes with the
portrayals found in modern neuroscience. In contrast to the
tremendous advances other branches of medicine display in answering
questions about the nature, causes, and treatments of physical
diseases, current psychiatric knowledge about what qualities of
madness distinguish it from sanity, the resemblance of mental and
physical pathologies, and the kinds of factors that lead people to
become mentally ill does not show any steady growth or, arguably,
much progress. The immense recent technological advances in brain
science have not yet led to corresponding improvements in
understandings of and explanations for mental illnesses. These
perplexing phenomena remain almost as mysterious now as they were
millennia ago.
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