The History of Psychological Treatment: The Greeks and Romans

The Greeks and Romans always thought that psychological disorders were biologically caused and so, they treated them like physical illnesses. Hippocrates: already impressively close to the truth in 400 B.C. Hippocrates, a Greek physician (470-366 B.C.) and many others contributed to a manual called the Hippocratic Corpus, on how psychological disorders could be treated like any other disease. However, Hippocrates and his associates didn’t stop there; they had the notion that psychological disorders might also be caused by brain pathology or head trauma and also, they had the idea that psychopathology could be influenced by genetics. It’s quite interesting to see how close Hippocrates came to the truth. Many of his deductions have been supported in...