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.
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