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Mental Illness in Ancient MedicineFrom Celsus to Paul of Aegina&#160;Editors: Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer, 2018In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh century CE.New analysis is offered, both of the dominant texts of Galen and of such important but neglected figures as Rufus, Archigenes, Athenaeus of Attalia, Aretaeus, Caelius Aurelianus and the Byzantine 'compilers'. The work of these authors is considered both in its medical-historical context and in relation to philosophical and theological debates - on ethics and on the nature of the soul - with which they interacted.(Text by the editors)&#160;Contents:Introduction. Disease Classification and Mental Illness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives - Chiara Thumiger and P. N. SingerBroader Reflections on Mental Illness: Medical Theories in Their Socio-intellectual ContextBetween Insanity and Wisdom: Perceptions of Melancholy in the Ps.-Hippocratic Letters 10–17 - George Kazantzidis“Not a Daimōn, but a Severe Illness”: Oribasius, Posidonius and Later Ancient Perspectives on Superhuman Agents Causing Disease - Nadine MetzgerIndividual Authors and ThemesAthenaeus of Attalia on the Psychological Causes of Bodily Health* - Sean CoughlinArchigenes of Apamea’s Treatment of Mental Diseases* - Orly LewisMental Perceptions and Pathology in the Work of Rufus of Ephesus - Melinda LettsMental Disorders and Psychological Suffering in Galen’s Cases* - Julien DevinantGalen on Memory, Forgetting and Memory Loss* - Ricardo JuliãoStomachikon, Hydrophobia and Other Eating Disturbances: Volition and Taste in Late-Antique Medical Discussions* - Chiara Thumiger“A Most Acute, Disgusting and Indecent Disease”: Satyriasis and Sexual Disorders in Ancient Medicine* - Chiara ThumigerMental Derangement in Methodist Nosography: What Caelius Aurelianus Had to Say - Anna Maria UrsoMental Illnesses in the Medical Compilations of Late Antiquity: The Case of Aëtius of Amida* - Ricarda GäbelPhilosophy and Mental IllnessMaking the Distinction: The Stoic View of Mental Illness - Marke AhonenPhilosophical Psychological Therapy: Did It Have Any Impact on Medical Practice?* - Christopher GillGalen’s Pathological Soul: Diagnosis and Therapy in Ethical and Medical Texts and Contexts* - P. N. Singer