title: Psychiatric nosology and taxonomy in ancient India.
abstract: This article considers the nosology and taxonomy of psychiatric disorders in Sushruta Samhita, an ancient Indian treatise on medicine. Some implications of this treatise for modern psychiatry are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Syracuse, New York.
authors.forename: C V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Haldipur
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000266:history*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*