Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era

by Allan V Horwitz and Allan V. Horwitz

Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental disorders from normality; whether mental illnesses are similar to or different from organic conditions; and the ways in which different eras conceive of the causes of mental disorder. It begins with the earliest depictions of mental illness in Ancient Greek...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019090786X
• ISBN13: 9780190907860
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"