HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Avicenna, Mania, Strange Behaviour
22 Jan 2018
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Key themes treatment/conception of mentally ill does not necessarily fit simply story of medical progress. Things that are true now, may not be true forever. Earliest recordings from 2nd c bce, potentially mania, depression and delusions. People had mental experiences that sounded like mental disorders today, but there was no real way of diagnosing them. Hippocrates and galen -> situated madness in brain, many of these problems ppl have come from the brain. U can touch mental illness if you can touch somebodys brain. Revived by islamic scholars (alrazi, ibn sina) treatment wards for mad found across muslim world. Other ways of thinking about madness of strange behaviour is bc of demons infecting them. Some people said it was the brain, some people said it was spirits, some people said it was cuz they learned that way. In europe, some cited spiritual basis for madness, others argued for imbalance of humours (biological).
