The British Journal of Psychiatry: Volume 113 -

The Oracle of Trophonius: A Kind of Shock Treatment Associated with Sensory Deprivation in Ancient Greece
D. Kouretas
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29 January 2018, pp. 1441-1446
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The ancient Greeks likened people who withdrew into themselves, were slow, and had a distant and frowning expression, to those who had consulted the holy oracle of Trophonius in Lebadeia about what was to happen to them in the future. King Croesus of Lydia consulted it about his expedition against the Persians (Herodotus I), Mardonius about his war against the Athenians (Herodotus VIII), the Thebans in the war against the Spartans (Pausanias IV) before the battle of Leuctra. Others consulted the oracle about their spiritual and mental state. There is evidence that among them were men who were concerned with psychological or metaphysical problems, a preoccupation which sometimes indicates the presence of psychological disorder. Timarchus, to whom we shall refer later, belongs to this category.

Report on the Training of Specialists in Mental Deficiency: (Prepared by a Sub-Committee of the Mental Deficiency Section of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association)
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29 January 2018, pp. 231-234
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1. The Sub-Committee was formed at the Annual General Meeting of the Mental Deficiency Section, 1962, following discussion of the inadequacy of postgraduate training in the speciality. A draft report was presented to the Section at the meeting held at Basingstoke in July 1964 and referred back to the Sub-Committee for reconsideration of certain items. Latterly there have been rapid developments towards the reorganization of the Association and the formation of a College, and it became necessary to defer discussion of some educational matters until the structure of the proposed new higher qualification was known.

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