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Psychiatric nosology and taxonomy in ancient India
Author(s) -
Haldipur C.V.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1989.tb01317.x
Subject(s) - nosology , taxonomy (biology) , psychiatry , psychology , medicine , biology , zoology
This article considers the nosology and taxonomy of psychiatric disorders in Sushruta Samhila, an ancient Indian treatise on medicine. Some implications of this treatise for modern psychiatry are discussed.