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Psychopathology in the early aurvedic texts*(with special reference to unmada)
Mitchell G Weiss
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 666 Cambridge Mass 02138, USA
Correspondence Address:
Mitchell G Weiss
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 666 Cambridge Mass 02138
USA
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The medical texts by Caraka and Susruta describe the symptoms, etiology, theory, treatment and prognosis of four types of mental disorders-unmada, bhutonmada, apasmara, and murcha. The present discussion is restricted to unmada-its theory, treatment and prognosis with an indication of the scope of analysis with reference to the Western psychiatric nosology. |
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