BRAINCAST - Pospo Meets Dr Moudhy Al Rashid - Mental Health in ancient times

Published: March 3, 2021, 10:18 a.m.

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They recognised, described and treated what we now call mental health disorders, \\u201cjust\\u201d a few thousand years ago! What can we learn from them?   Cuneiform texts on confusion, depression, 'seizing-of-the-mouth', and more. In this episode, Pospo and Dr Moudhy talk about understandings of mental illness in Assyrian and Babylonian medical texts.

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