Article ID: CBB550407955

Madness, Pain, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology (2020)

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This paper brings both textual and ethnographic considerations to bear on Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s (d. 1068/470H) medico-philosophical commentary on the Hippocratic Apho­risms. He considers cases of madness and absence of pain in order to discuss the problem of ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql (mental derangement) and its relation to the body, soul, and spirit. Focusing on ikhtilāṭ offers a space to examine an important configuration at the limit of the physical, the metaphysical, and spiritual. Ultimately, a close reading of Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s commentaries moves toward a theoretical psychology (a theory of the soul) and a medico-philosophical language of the subjective experience of pain.

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Authors & Contributors
Arnaudo, Elisa
Driggers, Edward Allen, Jr.
Thumiger, Chiara
Hosseinialhashemi, Milad
Ghanizadeh, Ahmad
Gray, Liz
Concepts
Medicine
Psychology
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Pain
Hysteria
Time Periods
19th century
Ancient
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
Medieval
Places
Persia (Iran)
France
Greece
Assyria
United States
South Africa
Institutions
Bologna. Università
Université de Montpellier
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