Of Mania: Introduction
@article{Berrios2004OfMI,
title={Of Mania: Introduction},
author={German E. Berrios},
journal={History of Psychiatry},
year={2004},
volume={15},
pages={105 - 124},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144834866}
}Classic Text No. 57 is meant to illustrate the way in which the old, pre-1800 clinical notion of mania was transformed into its current counterpart. In Classical times, the term ‘mania’ had been used to refer to three orders of objects: medical (as featured in this introduction and in the Classic text), theological (two Greek deities) (Smith, 1870) and epistemological. In regard to the last, a mania of ‘divine’ origin is mentioned by Plato in the Phaedrus, as a way to gain full knowledge, i.e…
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