Mental health problems: journey from Baghdad to Europe
Open Access
- 1 November 2013
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Psychiatry
- Vol. 10 (4) , 100-101
Abstract
This article looks at the evidence that not only did mental health problems affect people in the past, but that the physicians of past eras made numerous attempts to understand, classify and treat mental illness. Our aim is to show the strong scientific reasoning during the medieval era, in the Islamic world in particular, and how the complexities encountered by physicians centuries ago still haunt psychiatrists today.Keywords
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