[The continuity of biological models in psychiatry: melancholy as brain disease in scholastic psychology].
This paper emphasizes the long lines of tradition biological concepts have in the explanation of mental disorders in classical antiquity and the middle ages; yet it also portrays rivalling theories. I describe both medical and philosophical approaches, as they merged into a quite coherent model during scholasticism. The work of Albert the Great serves as an example for this model. A last paragraph shows its plausibility for authors even of the 17th century and discusses the epistomological basis of dualistic systems.
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Abteilung für Psychiatrie, Krankenhaus Urban, Berlin. theiss-abendroth@gmx.net
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