Psychiatric nosology and taxonomy in ancient India.
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.
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Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Syracuse, New York.
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