[Healing of a mental patient in the late Middle Ages. Community therapy by Hildegard of Bingen].
An account is given of the case history of a woman afflicted with mental disease and its course of healing, as described in the works of St. Hildegard of Bingen. The therapy may be considered as an early attempt of "team work" in health care. For better understanding of this rather casuistic contribution to the medicine of the High Middle Ages some principles of mediaeval medicine are explained. The key figure of "melancolia" is thereby given a position of central importance for the understanding of psychic disturbances in the Middle Ages.
D005858:Germany; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D013808:Therapeutic Community / Q000266:history
Heilung einer Geisteskranken im hohen Mittelalter. Eine "Gemeinschaftstherapie" bei Hildegard von Bingen.