This ambitious and complex book shows how the diverse views of mind and madness that characterize modern psychiatry were foreshadowed in the poetry, philosophy and medicine of the ancient Greeks. The author was a practicing psychatrist and psychoanalyst. The book was intended not only for classicists, psychiatrists and psychologists, but also for any reader interested in the history, nature and treatment of mental illness. The jacket has some corner and spine end wear; the book is like new.