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2,000 years ago
hippocrates (circa)
what hippocrates do
explain mental distress in biologically
imbalance in four humours(bodily fluids)
blood,phlgm,yellow bile and black bile
changes explained by
seasons, diet, emotional turmoil
black bile
depressed(melancholi)
yellow bile
irratible (choleric)
blood
overly cheerful/manic( sanguine)
plegm
unresponive/staid (plegmatic)
treatments
bring body and mind together
type of treatment
purging (making vomit)
blood letting
or diet
sleep
400- 1,500 adyears religious explanation of mental ilness
madness-posistion of evil spirirt
treatment
praying,
exorcism-torture (flogging starvation)
burton 1621- atonomy of melocholi
early case of ocd
balki in 850 ad in persia found
psychial and psychological causes of mental distress of OCD
descartes 1591
mind seperate than body and distress way of thinking rather than spiritual which resulting in new treatemnts