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Greek mythology and medical and psychiatric terminology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Loukas Athanasiadis
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A great number of terms in modern psychiatry, medicine and related disciplines originate from the Greek, including pathology, schizophrenia, ophthalmology, gynaecology, anatomy, pharmacology, biology, hepatology, homeopathy, allopathy and many others. There are also many terms that originate from figures from ancient Greek mythology (or the Greek words related to those figures) and I think that it might be interesting to take a look at some of them.

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History of Psychiatry
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 12 , December 1997 , pp. 781 - 782
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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Further reading

Grimal, P. (1990) A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology, London: Blackwell.Google Scholar
Lass, A., Kiremidjian, D. & Goldstein, R. (1987) Dictionary of Classical and Literary Allusion, Ware: Wordsworth.Google Scholar
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