Insanity in Ancient and Modern Life, with chapters on its prevention is a medical book written by the English physicist and practical worker in medicinal...

Einbildungskraft, Jena 1888] Insanity in Ancient and Modern Life, London 1878 Historical Sketch of the Association, in: G. F. Blandford, General Index...

papers were written on insanity as a result of masturbation, and this was written as a reason for admission when a person was confined in a hospital. A doctor...

Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by art, literature, and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such...

can be difficult to apply modern labels such as schizophrenia accurately to conditions described in ancient medical writings and other literature, which...

between his legs in greek mythology (source Theoi greek mythology) In psychology, cacodemonia (or cacodemonomania) is a form of insanity in which the patient...

small insanities." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three and a half stars, calling it "a gentle but very funny parody of the life of Jesus...

day; and on the third and fourth days they got up as if after having taken physic. Roman and Greek authorities believed mad honey could cure insanity. Aristotle...

of female same-sex attraction, approaching it as a form of insanity.: 241  Krafft-Ebing and Ellis debated whether lesbianism was a lifelong condition or...

September 2021. Watt, Jeffrey Rodgers (2004). From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe. Cornell University Press. "Danes killed to get killed"...

In 19th-century psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, "one", and mania, meaning "madness" or "frenzy") was a form of partial insanity conceived as single...

(Ancient Greek: Ἀρεταῖος) is one of the most celebrated of the ancient Greek physicians. Little is known of his life. He was ethnically Greek, born in...

reflecting the Ancient Athenians' attitudes to civic participation and private life, combining the ancient meaning of 'private citizen' with the modern meaning...

drove him mad. In his fit of insanity he killed his son, whom he mistook for a stock of ivy, and then himself. Amrita Elixir of life, a potion sought...

for suicide in England originated in the ancient world and evolved gradually into their early modern form; similar laws and customs existed in many parts...

documents, and other stories to help preserve this history for generations in the future to celebrate and cherish. Women's sexuality in ancient Mesopotamia...

implicated in "ghostevil" insanity, which presumably resulted from possession by evil spirits. The "Dark Ages" in China, however, were neither so severe (in terms...

Kingdom and America, together with the founding of medico-psychological journals. Medical optimism in the capacity of the asylum to cure insanity soured...

and met with vehement rejection in 492/491 BC. His elder half-brother, king Cleomenes, had already been deposed on grounds of purported insanity, and...

article describing "circular insanity" and this is believed to be the first recorded diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Years later, in the early 1900s, Emil Kraepelin...

In Greek mythology, Orpheus (/ˈɔːrfiːəs, ˈɔːrfjuːs/ ; Ancient Greek: Ὀρφεύς, classical pronunciation: [or.pʰeú̯s]) was a Thracian bard, legendary musician...

identities, and sexualities in ancient civilizations, involving the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) peoples and cultures...

Kassandra (/kəˈsændrə/; Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα, pronounced [kas:ándra], sometimes referred to as Alexandra; Ἀλεξάνδρα) in Greek mythology was a Trojan...

disruptive factor in the life of the community. The Ancient Egyptian language lacks a term for the modern English demon, since both deities and lesser spirits can...

form of nervous prostration (neurasthenia) culminating in insanity". American Journal of Insanity. 25 (4): 445–461. doi:10.1176/ajp.25.4.445. Beard, George...

of the ancient civilization of the "Aryo-Veneti", and an author of antisemitic ideas. He was the founder and chairman of World Anti-Zionist and Anti-Masonic...

of what was to become our modern depression) Pichot P. (2004). "150e anniversaire de la Folie Circulaire" [Circular insanity, 150 years on]. Bulletin de...

Circumcision likely has ancient roots among several ethnic groups in sub-equatorial Africa, Egypt, and Arabia, though the specific form and extent of circumcision...

Louis A. (1992). Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought. New York: Basic Books. Cited in Bauer, Amy (2004), "Cognition...

time and across cultures. At times, suicide played a prominent role in ancient legend and history, like with Ajax the Great, who killed himself in the...