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| Title: | Pre-modern Madness |
| Authors: | 陳秀芬
Chen, Hsiu-Fen |
| Contributors: | 歷史系 |
| Date: | 2022-06 |
| Issue Date: | 2022-12-02 09:47:54 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | This chapter sets out to explore pluralistic medical views of madness in pre-modern China. From ancient times, medical treatises had recorded several illnesses in relation to madness. They included disorders of dian 癲 and kuang 狂, wind malady, phlegm-fire, heart diseases and emotional disorders. Some physicians tended to explain them in terms of body imbalance, namely, disharmony of qi, yin-yang and the visceral organs, or, excess of phlegm and fire, depletion of heart blood, etc. Some others might appeal to external causes instead, such as pathogenic wind invasion or demonic attacks. Yet, increasing attention was paid to emotional disturbance in the later periods, when concerns with sentiments, gender and sex were growing. Despite their different roots, the symptoms of these disorders often referred to chaotic minds, disturbing emotions and/or uncontrolled behaviour in addition to physical ailments. Though acupuncture and needling were often used as treatments, plus some cases of talking therapies and even ritual therapies, drug therapies that aimed at regulating the body remained the most welcome for those labelled as mad. In the view of body-mind holism, it partly explains why psychiatry and psychology could not find their place in China until the 1920s–1930s. |
| Relation: | Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine, Routledge, pp.230-244 |
| Data Type: | book/chapter |
| Appears in Collections: | [歷史學系] 專書/專書篇章
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