Psychosomatic Illness in Early Modern Italy: lessons for modern psychiatric theory and practice

人文科学和医学研究人员之间的这种开创性合作将调查心身疾病在现代早期意大利的定义和传播方式。这种疾病的流行至今仍在发生，近几十年来对澳大利亚产生了重大的社会和经济影响。我们的项目将借鉴现代精神病学理论和实践的历史和文化差异的概念和沟通的“hypothelia”。它将揭示一个非常现代的精神病学伦理困境：医生应该对“精神衰弱”的病人撒谎吗？它也将有助于目前的辩论的作用，疾病的标签和信息的发病率和'传染性'的心身疾病。

This pioneering collaboration between researchers in humanities and medicine will investigate the ways psychosomatic illness was defined and spread in early modern Italy. Epidemics of such illness still occur today and have had a major social and economic impact on Australia in recent decades. Our project will draw lessons for modern psychiatric theory and practice from historical and cultural differences in the conceptualisation and communication of 'hypochondria'. It will shed light on a very contemporary ethical dilemma in psychiatry: should doctors lie to 'hypochondriacal' patients? It will also contribute to current debates on the role of disease labels and information in the incidence and 'infectiousness' of psychosomatic illness.