Avicenna's Contribution to Psychiatry
Tārīkh-i pizishkī i.e., Medical History,
Vol. 11 No. 40 (1398),
4 March 2020
,
Page 107-117
https://doi.org/10.22037/mhj.v11i40.27824
Abstract
Background and Aim: Avicenna, an Iranian well-known physician and philosopher, despite his relatively short life, had a significant impact on the sciences in his era and after himself. Due to the lack of comprehensive studies on Avicenna's views on psychiatry disorder, we decided to conduct this study.
Materials and Methods: We used Pubmed, Google schoolar to review Avicenna's views on psychiatry in a comprehensive review of SID, Irandoc, Magiran databases. And various books on Iranian medical history reviewed. Also, all the volumes of Avicenna's Book of Law were studied and invistigated.
Findings: Avicenna was the first physician to introduce the concept of hallucinations and delusions. He also describes extensively the Love disorder, which is actually the first medicine to address the symptoms and signs of adjustment disorder. He also mentions melancholic disorder and mania and considers mania to be a complicated type of melancholic disorder.
Conclusion: In the field of psychosomati, he points to the close connection between the central nervous system and the gastrointestinal system. In the field of human personality, the four types of temperaments originating from Greek medicine, including bloody, phelegmatic, blackbile, choleric, are carefully described and elaborated.
Please cite this article as: Yarhosseini A, Arbabi M. Avicenna's Contribution to Psychiatry. Med Hist J 2019; 11(40): 107-117.
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