La psychiatrie à Rome. Comprendre et soigner la folie d'après Celse et Caelius Aurelianus. Archéologie généralité far removed from residents and

far removed from residents and environmental concerns

published for the first time in an accessible volume

Museomontagna Notebook 55

Published in 1918

La psychiatrie à Rome. Comprendre et soigner la folie d'après Celse et Caelius Aurelianus. Archéologie généralité far removed from residents andFrom the very beginning, Greek and Roman societies recognized the most serious mental disorders as illnesses, which constituted a social issue and called for appropriate legal responses. However, it was not until the Hellenistic period and in Rome that psychiatry truly emerged. The relatively recent access to the medical corpus in translation now allows us to discover a decisive period in which a complex psychiatric practice and theory emerged, far