lavachat

lavachat t1_itlkygw wrote

I've learned it's on mesopotamian clay tablets, with a description of symptoms and treatments - although it was handled by priests, since they thought it was caused by demonic possession or curses (by either a god or a human). Does trying to find out which cause "applied" in each case as early psychotherapy?

The eighth and ninth clay tablets of the Gilgamesh epos describe his grief and wanderings after Enkidu's death, with an account we would read as depression today.

Later on Herodot and Plutarch describe it as a disease in their medical texts, but they called it melancholia.

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