Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind) by Marke AhonenEnglish | 2014 | ISBN: 3319034308 | 265 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.