| Acknowledgments | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Therapeutic Arguments | 13 |
| Ch. 2 | Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice | 48 |
| Ch. 3 | Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health | 78 |
| Ch. 4 | Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire | 102 |
| Ch. 5 | Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of Love | 140 |
| Ch. 6 | Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature | 192 |
| Ch. 7 | "By Words, Not Arms": Lucretius on Anger and Aggression | 239 |
| Ch. 8 | Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without Belief | 280 |
| Ch. 9 | Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the Soul | 316 |
| Ch. 10 | The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions | 359 |
| Ch. 11 | Seneca on Anger in Public Life | 402 |
| Ch. 12 | Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca's Medea | 439 |
| Ch. 13 | The Therapy of Desire | 484 |
| List of Philosophers and Schools | 511 |
| Bibliography | 517 |
| Index Locorum | 531 |
| General Index | 550 |
