Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
4186209 | Journal of Affective Disorders | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Some see current views of mental illness, such as depression, as merely contemporary social constructions, with madness seen as a modernist break from medieval and ancient concepts. In contrast to these assumptions, here we describe one of the earliest texts on melancholia and mania, by Ibn Imran, an Arab physician of the 10th century.
Keywords
Related Topics
Health Sciences
Medicine and Dentistry
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Authors
Adel Omrani, Niki S. Holtzman, Hagop S. Akiskal, S. Nassir Ghaemi,