Talk:History of mental disorders

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Questionable Source; Crossing Dialogues?
Citation 50 says Aragona, Massimiliano (2009). "The concept of mental disorder and the DSM-V" (PDF). Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences. 2:

And is linking to " http://www.crossingdialogues.com/Ms-A08-02.pdf "

One odd thing I noticed is the page looks like the following

http://i.imgur.com/Y9l5rLb.jpg

It appears the page might be hacked and/or is currently being squatted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.218.88 (talk) 20:21, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Apparently, it was a temporary problem. The site works fine now. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame credit › 15:19, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Dates/Scope
This article appears to imply that Islam started around 600 BC, which is off by roughly 1,200 years. It started around 600 AD, way after the Judaic Babylonian exile. Also, could use some updating to provide history after the middle ages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whooper (talk • contribs) 00:24, 7 August 2004 (UTC)
 * That struck me as odd too. I modified the opening sentence there to relflect that. Midas 13:33, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

What about other societies? Medieval Europe, Africa, Americas, Far East? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.146.141.164 (talk) 19:03, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I am interested in adding information to this article, especially in areas where there is only a couple of sentences, such as China. China only has information on mental disorders dating from 1849, and there is definitely information earlier than that date. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for me? Tmgonzalez (talk) 16:25, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Quality
This article requires some heavy revision. There's more here on irrelevant ancient religions (irrelevant to the topic, that is), than there is on modern approaches to mental health. I don't know enough to improve it, but I know that there is a lot missing here. --Nasajin 20:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Expertise
Like Nasajin, I don't know enough to restructure the article or dismiss some of the more specific claims, but I know enough to know that classical Greece was not after ancient Islam and that Islam was not born in the 6th century BC. I removed these fallacies. Kyle Pena 05:54, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Importance
Though the quality of this article is very poor at present, surely the topic is of high importance? Should perhaps be tagged as needing expert attention. Dimwight 12:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Text from major depressive disorder article
I have removed the following from the too-long article:

Between 150 and 200 AD, Aretaeus of Cappadocia noted that sufferers were "dull or stern; dejected or unreasonably torpid, without any manifest cause". Although humoral theory fell out of favor in some quarters, it was later revived in Greece and the Roman Empire when Galen proposed that melancholy was caused by "animal spirits". Such accounts show similarities to more modern concepts that developed from the 19th century. Prominence was given to a clustering of sadness, dejection, and despondency symptoms, but also often included fear, anger, delusions and obsessions.

Galen's ideas about medicine dominated Western medical thinking from the medieval era until the Renaissance, in part because the Catholic church supported them. In addition to viewing mental illness through the lens of Galen's "four humors", medieval Europeans viewed mental illness as the entry of demons or evil spirits into the body and either a punishment for sin or a test of faith and character. The Franciscan monk Bartholomeus Anglicus (ca. 1203–1272) described a condition which resembles depression in his encyclopedia, De Proprietatibis Rerum, and he suggested that music would help people with this condition. In Christian settings, a spiritual malaise called "acedia" (sloth or absence of caring) was described, involving low spirits and lethargy, especially related to isolation. It was viewed as a "spiritual disease", vice, or "undesirable trait of character".

Assessment comment
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