Download Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to by Steven M. Oberhelman PDF

This quantity facilities on goals in Greek drugs from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic routine all the way down to the trendy period. medication is the following outlined in a much broader feel than simply formal scientific praxis, and comprises non-formal scientific therapeutic equipment similar to folks pharmacopeia, faith, ’magical’ tools (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells), and residential treatments. This quantity examines how in Greek tradition desires have performed an essential component in formal and non-formal technique of therapeutic. The papers are equipped into 3 significant diachronic sessions. the 1st workforce specializes in the classical Greek via overdue Roman Greek sessions. issues comprise desires within the Hippocratic corpus; the cult of the god Asclepius and its therapeutic facilities, with their incubation and miracle dream-cures; goals within the writings of Galen and different clinical writers of the Roman Empire; and clinical desires in well known oneirocritic texts, specially the second-century C.E. dreambook via Artemidorus of Daldis, the main famous expert dream interpreter of antiquity. the second one staff of papers appears to be like to the Christian Byzantine period, while dream incubation and dream healings have been practised at church buildings and shrines, conducted through dwelling and useless saints. additionally mentioned are desires as a scientific instrument utilized by physicians of their clinic praxis and within the sensible clinical texts (iatrosophia) that they and laypeople consulted for the therapeutic of ailment. the ultimate papers take care of desires and therapeutic in Greece from the Turkish interval of Greece right down to the present day within the Greek islands. The concluding bankruptcy brings the booklet an entire circle via discussing how smooth psychotherapists and psychologists use Ascelpian dream-rituals on pilgrimages to Greece.