Galen, <i>On Diagnosis from Dreams</i>

Oberhelman, Steven M.

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“…He was the first to describe the bulbospongiosal and ischiocavernosal muscles. Galen considered dreams with their SREs as textbook examples of the category dreams that reflected an individual's physical state: “Men full of sperm will imagine that they are having sexual intercourse.” [16,17] So, in his view, SREs and nocturnal ejaculations were simply the consequence of a males' physical condition. He was also an “early believer” that sexual abstinence could cause madness.…”

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Sleep Related Erections Throughout the Ages

Driel

2014

The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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Sleep Related Erections Throughout the Ages

Driel

2014

The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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“…The more specific question of whether diseases produce dreams was, in antiquity, often (though not always) answered in the affirmative (see Oberhelman, 1983). Regimen IV, or Dreams, of Pseudo-Hippocrates consists, in large part, of a “Dreambook” correlating dreams with diseases 13 (e.g., “When dreams are contrary to the acts of the day, and there occurs about them some struggle or triumph, a disturbance in the body is indicated.” It is even suggested that such dreams are “caused by a secretion arising from some surfeit that has occurred” [Hippocrates, 1929, p.…”

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How might we explain the parallels between Freud's 1895 Irma dream and his 1923 cancer?

Hersh¹

1995

Dreaming

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Freud's 1895 "Irma" dream-the first he ever submitted to a detailed analysis, the dream he used as the "specimen dream" in The Interpretation of Dreams-seems to have contained both images of his 1923 cancer as well as a reasonable "theory" as to its etiology. In this paper, four possible explanations are discussed. There is reason to think that some dreams reflect biological states and that dreams may eventually be used to help in early diagnosis of physical illnesses. The "Irma" dream is seen, in part, as a warning "sent" by Freud's body. This helps explain Freud's fascination with the dream. From this angle (and there are many other angles), Freud's theorizing about dreams represented his attempt to become conscious of that which would eventually kill him. The discussion section focuses on how connections between dreams and disease states have been, and might further be, studied.

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“…An important section of it is identical to Galen's commentary on Epidemics I, which ‘is attributable to Galen with certainty’ (Hulskamp [2008], 198). I follow Hulskamp and Oberhelman (1983), who have aligned themselves with Guidorizzi's view, while acknowledging that this attribution may be disputed.…”

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The Semiotics of the Soul in Ancient Medical Dream Interpretation: Perception and the Poetics of Dream Production in Hippocrates’ on Regimen

Haselswerdt¹

2019

Ramus

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In the medical practice of Asclepian dream incubation, dreams offered a conduit through which the divine power of the healing god could be visited upon an ailing suppliant. This practice was enough of a part of everyday life in fifth-century Athens that it achieved the dubious honor of an extended parody in Aristophanes’ Plutus. An extensive inscriptional record suggests that it continued to flourish for many centuries. But there was another type of dream employed in ancient Greek and Roman medical practice, with a much scanter trail of evidence. These dreams had endogenous, physiological origins and provided information about the internal disposition of the body not by divine intervention, but by some manner of inward perception on the part of the patient. With the rising interest in observational methodology in the fith century, opsis, and ideally autopsy, became the basis on which scientific knowledge was produced and elaborated. Taboos against physically opening the human body, in life as well as in death, prevented physicians from directly observing their patients’ interiors. The visions of dreams, then, could potentially provide doctors with a uniquely valuable diagnostic tool: genuine access to the observation of a body's internal condition, albeit in a strange, mediated form.

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Galen, On Diagnosis from Dreams

Cited by 23 publications

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Sleep Related Erections Throughout the Ages

Sleep Related Erections Throughout the Ages

How might we explain the parallels between Freud's 1895 Irma dream and his 1923 cancer?

The Semiotics of the Soul in Ancient Medical Dream Interpretation: Perception and the Poetics of Dream Production in Hippocrates’ on Regimen

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