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...

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

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

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

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

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

strange and the horrific. In ancient Near Eastern religions and in the Abrahamic religions, including early Judaism and ancient-medieval Christian demonology...

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

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...

women as widows. Homosexuality in ancient Egypt between women is less often recorded, or alluded to, in documents and other artifacts as compared to homosexuality...

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

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

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"unconditional selflessness". According to Ambrose Bierce, love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage. People can express love towards things other than...

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...

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...

songs by Price. In 2023, Nighthawk Press of Taos reprinted The Wisdom and Insanity of Doughbelly Price with a preface by O'Donnell. The 2007 edition of...

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...

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

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

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...

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...