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J Physiol
September 2024
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Am J Psychiatry
May 2022
Department of Psychiatry and Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (Kendler); Philosophy Program, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (Tabb); Department of Philosophy and Religion, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant (Wright).
Western psychiatry emerged as a medical specialty caring for the mentally ill over the course of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This emergence was a contingent process, dependent on the co-occurrence of three historical developments that together shaped the young discipline. The first was the rise of the mind as an entity with numerous active faculties in the conceptual space between the body and the Christian soul.
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