HISTORY AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

Psychiatry during the early 20th century
A hundred years ago, most mentally ill were treated in asylums. Read a descriptive text by Lena Carlsson, and learn about a reality only two generations back in time.

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Psychiatry during the middle ages in the Western countries - an overview
The mentally ill were carded for at home, or at monasteries. Many ill were discriminated. In some regions, special laws regulated how the ill should be treated.

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The middle ages in the muslim world
Make a journey in time and space. Travel to a time when music was an important therapy and when the sultan oversaw the nursing and made sure that the patients were comfortable i hospitals looking like palaces.

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Schizophrenia throughout the history - The prehistoric times
The word schizophrenia is less than 100 years old, but the illness has probably accompanied mankind through its history. Schizophrenia can be traced in written documents to the old Pharaonic Egypt, as far back as the second millennium before Christ.

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