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Author : Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Madness in Ancient Literature written by Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bennett Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece written by Bennett Simon and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. O'Brien-Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849005756
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Madness in Ancient Literature written by A. O'Brien-Moore and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258888381
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Madness in Ancient Literature written by Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
Author : Lillian Feder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219737
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Madness in Literature written by Lillian Feder and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To probe the literary representation of the alienated mind, Lillian Feder examines mad protagonists of literature and the work of writers for whom madness is a vehicle of self-revelation. Ranging from ancient Greek myth and tragedy to contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama, Professor Feder shows how literary interpretations of madness, as well as madness itself, reflect the very cultural assumptions, values, and prohibitions they challenge.
Author : Debra Hershkowitz
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191584495
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Madness of Epic written by Debra Hershkowitz and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-06-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness plays a vital role in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness also often occupies a central thematic position in the texts. In this book, Debra Hershkowitz examines from a variety of theoretical angles the representation and poetic function of madness in Greek and Latin epic from Homer through the Flavians, including individual chapters devoted to the Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and Statius' Thebaid. The study also addresses the difficulty of defining madness, and discusses how each epic explores this problem in a different way, finding its own unique way of conceptualizing madness. Epic madness interacts with ancient models of madness, but also, even more importantly, with previous representations of madness in the literary tradition. Likewise, the reader's response to epic madness is influenced by both ancient and modern views of madness, as well as by an awareness of intertextuality.
Author : Ruth Padel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691025889
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Whom Gods Destroy written by Ruth Padel and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially tragedy, gave the West its permanent perception of madness as violent and damaging. Drawing on her deep knowledge of anthropology, psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, and the history of madness, as well as of Greek language and literature, Ruth Padel probes the Greek language of madness, which is fundamental to tragedy: translating, making it reader-friendly to nonspecialists, and showing how Greek images continued through medieval and Renaissance societies into a "rough tragic grammar" of madness in the modern period.
Author : Allan V. Horwitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019090786X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Between Sanity and Madness written by Allan V. Horwitz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Homer to Neuroscience traces the extensive array of answers that various groups have provided to questions about the nature of mental illness and its boundaries with sanity. What distinguishes mental illnesses from other sorts of devalued conditions and from normality? Should medical, religious, psychological, legal, or no authority at all respond to the mentally ill? Why do some people become mad? What treatments might help them recover? Despite general agreement across societies regarding definitions about the pole of madness, huge disparities exist on where dividing lines should be placed between it and sanity and even if there is any clear demarcation at all. Various groups have provided answers to these puzzles that are both widely divergent and surprisingly similar to current understandings"--
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307833100
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Madness and Civilization written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Author : Peter Toohey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113026
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Melancholy, Love, and Time written by Peter Toohey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature
Author : Yulia Ustinova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351581260
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Divine Mania written by Yulia Ustinova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Our greatest blessings come to us by way of mania, provided it is given us by divine gift,’ – says Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus. Certain forms of alteration of consciousness, considered to be inspired by supernatural forces, were actively sought in ancient Greece. Divine mania comprises a fascinating array of diverse experiences: numerous initiates underwent some kind of alteration of consciousness during mystery rites; sacred officials and inquirers attained revelations in major oracular centres; possession states were actively sought; finally, some thinkers, such as Pythagoras and Socrates, probably practiced manipulation of consciousness. These experiences, which could be voluntary or involuntary, intense or mild, were interpreted as an invasive divine power within one’s mind, or illumination granted by a super-human being. Greece was unique in its attitude to alteration of consciousness. From the perspective of individual and public freedom, the prominent position of the divine mania in Greek society reflects its acceptance of the inborn human proclivity to experience alteration of consciousness, interpreted in positive terms as god-sent. These mental states were treated with cautious respect, and in contrast to the majority of complex societies, ancient and modern, were never suppressed or pushed to the cultural and social periphery.
Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691166153
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Madness in Civilization written by Andrew Scull and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472089994
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Revels in Madness written by Allen Thiher and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004-12-23 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present
Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004249877
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Mental Disorders in the Classical World written by William V. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce Mental Disorders in the Classical World aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed and treated mental disorders. The Greeks initiated the secular understanding of mental illness, and have left us a large body of penetrating and thought-provoking writing on the subject, ranging in time from Homer to the sixth century AD. With the conceptual basis of modern psychiatry once again under intense debate, we need to learn from other rational approaches even when they lack modern scientific underpinnings. Meanwhile this volume adds a rich chapter to the cultural and medical history of antiquity. The contributors include a high proportion of the best-regarded scholars in this field, together with papers by some of its rising stars.
Author : M. H. Henze
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004114210
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar written by M. H. Henze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Nebuchadnezzar's madness in Daniel 4 demonstrates how the elements which the biblical author borrowed from Ancient Near Eastern myth commanded the attention of early Jewish and Christian exegetes.
Author : Marke Ahonen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319034316
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy written by Marke Ahonen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Greg Eghigian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351784390
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health written by Greg Eghigian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad people's historical anthologies and republished writings -- Mad people's perspectives in institutional histories -- Mad people's historical biographies -- Mad people's activist histories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Dementia: confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness -- Dementia in the distant past -- Framing dementia as a brain disease in modern German psychiatry -- Framing dementia as a problem in the adjustment to aging in mid-century American psychodynamic psychiatry -- Framing dementia as dread disease and major public health crisis in an aging world -- Conclusion: the ongoing entanglement of dementia and aging -- Notes -- PART VI: Maladies, disorders, and treatments -- Chapter 17: Passions and moods -- Emotions in history -- Grand narratives and overarching themes -- Specific stories and critical contexts -- Conclusion and areas for further scholarship -- Notes -- Chapter 18: Psychosis -- Madness -- Psychosis is a special thing -- If "psychotic" means "psychosis-like," then what, pray tell, is psychosis like? -- Schizophrenia -- Notes -- Chapter 19: Somatic treatments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 20: Psychotherapy in society: historical reflections -- Notes -- Chapter 21: The antidepressant era revisited: towards differentiation and patient-empowerment in diagnosis and treatment -- Psychopharmacology and historiography -- Towards a new chemistry of the mind -- Mother's little helpers -- Appetite for new chemical wonders for the mind -- Towards differentiation and patient empowerment in the era of genomics -- Notes -- Index
