Mental Disorders in the Classical World

Content: Thinking about mental disorders in classical antiquity / W.V. Harris --
Current problems in the classification of mental illness --
\'Carving nature at the joints\' : the dream of a perfect classification of mental illness / Bennett Simon --
If only the ancients had had DSM, all would have been crystal clear : reflections on diagnosis / Julian C. Hughes --
Greek classification --
The early greek medical vocabulary of insanity / Chiara Thumiger --
The typology and aetiology of madness in ancient greek medical and philosophical writing / Jacques Jouanna --
Galenic madness / Vivian Nutton --
What is a mental illness, and how can it be treated? Galen\'s reply as a doctor and philosopher / Véronique Boudon-Millot --
Disturbing connections : sympathetic affections, mental disorder, and the elusive soul in Galen / Brooke Holmes --
Plato on madness and the good life / Katja Maria Vogt --
Particular syndromes --
Mental disorder and the perils of definition : characterizing epilepsy in greek scientific discourse (5th-4th centuries BCE) / Roberto Lo Presti --
Medical epistemology and melancholy : Rufus of Ephesus and Miskawayh / Peter E. Pormann --
\'Quem nos furorem, melancholian illi vocant\' : Cicero on melancholy / George Kazantzidis --
Fear of flute girls, fear of falling / Helen King --
Symptoms, cures and therapy --
Greek and roman hallucinations / W.V. Harris --
Cure and (in)curability of mental disorders in ancient medical and philosophical thought / Philip van der Eijk --
Philosophical therapy as preventive psychological medicine / Christopher Gill --
From homer to attic tragedy --
From homeric ate to tragic madness / Suzanne Said --
The madness of tragedy / Glenn W. Most --
Mental disorders and responsibility --
Mental illness, moral error, and responsibility in late Plato / Maria Michela Sassi --
The rhetoric of the insanity plea / David Konstan --
A roman coda --
Madness in the Digest / Peter Toohey --
The psychological impact of disasters in the age of Justinian / Jerry Toner.