Psychiatry : Antiquity and Its Legacy / Jessica Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Jessica, 1985- author.

Series:

Ancients and moderns series.

Ancients and Moderns Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--United States--History.

Psychiatry.

Psychiatry--Mythology.

Civilization, Classical.

Icarus Project (New York, N.Y.).

Fireweed Collective (Organization).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, [2025]

Summary:

"This volume examines modern questions around psychiatry through a historical lens, teasing apart associations with ancient medicine, philosophy and myth to demonstrate how these reflect internal contradictions and ambiguities within modern conceptions of mental illness and its treatment. By exploring a series of explanatory models and diagnoses, and mapping key connections between ancient and modern frameworks, it demonstrates how the process of exploring the connections between modern and ancient psychiatry can illuminate modern understandings of mental illness, its therapies, and its place in contemporary society and culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

ANCIENTS AND MODERNS

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

Introduction

Classical Figureheads: The Icarus Project

Psychiatry and the Rise of Mental Illness

The 'Legacy' of Antiquity

What's in a Name? Etymological Connections

Emic versus Etic Approaches

After Icarus?

1 Mental Illness

A Note on Terminology

Mental Disorder in the 'Bibles' of Psychiatry

The Disease Debate and the Concept of 'Dysfunction

Dysfunction and Teleology

Dysfunction and the 'Proper' Uses of the Body

High-Functioning, Low-Functioning

Biological Psychiatry

Hippocratic Medicine and Natural Philosophy

The Brain and Mental Illness in Hippocratic Medicine

Hellenistic Medicine and Philosophy: Brain, Heart, Spirit, Soul

Illnesses of the Soul

Mania, Melancholia, and Phrenitis

The Medicalization of Philosophy

Christianity and the Spiritualization of Illnesses Affecting the Soul

Whether Illnesses of the Soul Are Worse than Illnesses of the Body

2 Mania

Madness and Mania in Greek Tragedy

Mania in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Mania in Ancient Medicine

Māniyā in Arab-Islamic Medicine

Insania Universalis and 'Furious Madness'

Mania beyond Medicine

3 Melancholia

An 'Omnipresent Phenomenon'

To Stageirios the Monk, On Being Harassed by a Demon

Melancholic Diseases in Ancient Greece

The Noonday Demon: Acedia in Ancient and Medieval Christianity

From Religion to Science

The Melancholic Temperament and the Renaissance Genius

Melancholia and the Philosopher

The Triumph of the Meridian Demon

Melancholia after Humoralism

Mourning, Melancholia, and Serotonin: Between Kraepelin and Freud

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Neo-Stoicism

Neo-Acedia

'Masked' Depression?

4 Hysteria.

The Proteus of Maladies

Origins of Hysteria

Stop, Womb!

'Hysterical Suffocation'

Menstruation

Nerves, Brain, Mind

Gender, Sex, and Hysteria

Psychoanalysis: Hypnotism and Sexuality

5 Catharsis

Laying the Groundwork: Psychoanalysis and Classical Antiquity

Behind the Scenes: Ancient Greek Drama and Psychoanalysis

From katharsis to the Cathartic Method

Therapeutic Catharsis after Freud

Katharsis as Menstruation

A Theatre of Combat Veterans

6 Phrenitis

Ghosts from the Past: Hauntology and the History of Psychiatry

Phrenitis in Ancient Greek Medicine

Phrenitis in Medieval Medicine

Phrenitis in Early Modern Medicine

Haunting 1: Violence and Constraint

Haunting 2: Masculinity

Haunting 3: Brain and Self

Conclusion

Echoing Antiquity

Figuring the Relationship between Classical Antiquity and Modern Psychiatry

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350215832

OCLC:

1450107499