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...

genitals of some women and some men. Phaedrus remarked: "Lust now enjoys perverted pleasure." Modern scholarship indicates that ancient Roman men viewed female...

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

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

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

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...

prevailing belief-system. The Ancient Egyptian language lacks a term for the modern English demon, since both deities and lesser spirits can act as intermediaries...

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...

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

(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...

made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis. Chapple, Richard L.; Henry, Peter (1976). "Modern Soviet Satire". The Slavic and East European Journal....

interest in chaos and insanity ... and the final panel refers to a scene from his childhood when he and his father came upon an overturned truck, dead and injured...

made it a crossroads of trade and a focal point of conflict, contributing to its complex and eventful past. The first Ancient East Eurasian hunter-gatherers...

in ancient Mesopotamia is not well documented. Stephanie Lynn Budin, writing on love magic, argues that "there remains no evidence for lesbianism in this...

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...

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

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...

(/ˌæfrəˈdaɪtiː/ , AF-rə-DY-tee) is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretised Roman counterpart...

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...

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...

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

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

psychiatry, when mania had a broad meaning of insanity, hypomania was equated by some to concepts of "partial insanity" or monomania. German neuro-psychiatrist...

being set in a quasi-historical ancient China, featuring larger-than-life human protagonists, and struggles between good and evil. The main difference is...

they can be understood and cured. An 1809 description of a case that Pinel recorded in the second edition of his textbook on insanity is regarded by some...

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...

fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus (/ˈbækəs/ or /ˈbɑːkəs/; Ancient Greek: Βάκχος Bacchos)...