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Psychiatry

Volume 5, Issue 4, 1 April 2006, Pages 115-118
Psychiatry

Historical aspects of mood disorders

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Abstract

This contribution traces succinctly the conceptual development of depressive and bipolar disorders from Graeco-Roman views, through the Middle Ages and the period of the Enlightenment, into the modern era. Common threads, analogies and links between ancient and modern ideas are identified and briefly discussed, and some past controversies are revisited.

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