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Mental health problems: journey from Baghdad to Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Yasir Abbasi  and
Adel Omrani
Yasir Abbasi
Affiliation:
Leeds Addiction Unit, Leeds, UK, email yabbasi@nhs.net
Adel Omrani
Affiliation:
Tunisian Bipolar Forum, Tunis, Tunisia, email omrani.adel@gnet.tn
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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.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , November 2013 , pp. 100 - 101
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