Psyche, soul and body: A scoping review on the Greek knowledge about the mental disorders in ancient imperial Rome

Q3 Medicine
L. Bottalico , L. Santacroce , S. Topi , I.A. Charitos
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Abstract

The sacred paleo medicine with superstitions and religious ceremonies, applied by shamans and magicians, not only in its organization but also in its therapeutic approach and its interpretative method was the first step for the therapy of mental illnesses. It was part of a mythological system, and its representatives were doctor-priests, who, slowly at the same time, collected clinical and semantic data, paving the way before Hippocrates. To investigate the evolution of such thoughts we extracted data from electronic data banks and ancient books from both public libraries and private collections. The texts of ancient medicine cover an extended period ranging from the “Iππoκρατικό Σώμα” (Corpus Hippocraticum) of the classical period (V-IV century BC) up to the authors of the late classical ages Roman Empire such as e.g., Aretaeus, Celsus, Galen, and others. This work aims to take a journey through the legacy of ancient Greek philosophy concerning the psyche that influenced medicine in Roman Classical age in its diagnosis and therapy for the mentally ill, thus laying the scientific foundations of modern neuropsychiatry.
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Ethics, Medicine and Public Health
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Medicine-Health Policy
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2.20
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107
审稿时长
42 days
期刊介绍: This review aims to compare approaches to medical ethics and bioethics in two forms, Anglo-Saxon (Ethics, Medicine and Public Health) and French (Ethique, Médecine et Politiques Publiques). Thus, in their native languages, the authors will present research on the legitimacy of the practice and appreciation of the consequences of acts towards patients as compared to the limits acceptable by the community, as illustrated by the democratic debate.
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