Albert the Great's interpretation of neuropsychiatric symptoms in the context of scholastic psychology and physiology

Albert the Great (ca. 1193-1280) serves as an example to show how the Latin West successfully integrated Greco-Arabian psychology with Galenic physiology. He divised a model of perceptive, cognitive and mnestic powers located in different areas of the "brain cells" and interacting with the immaterial and man-specific intellect. He managed to describe anmesis, epileptic seizures and psychotic states as results of disturbed brain fuction. Finally, further aspects of Scholastic theorizing on mental disorders are discussed.     

解读1948年“杨妹事件”始末

1948年4月,重庆女子杨妹“九年不食”的报道见诸报端。随之,全国各地相继有自称不食者出现,社会各界及政府对此异常关注,全国范围内一度掀起了为期数月关注杨妹的热潮。“杨姝事件”的发生及其影响得以迅速扩大是当时国统区恶劣的经济环境及生存条件之下民众心理与关切的集中反映。人们对“杨妹不食”的极大兴趣及杨妹等不食者“不食反为食”的矛盾心态及动机,无不从一特定角度描绘出国统区民众当时真实的生活及心理状态。