What is History of psychiatry?
'''The history of psychiatry''' began in [[India]] with the [[Charaka Samhita]] which was a book in [[Sanskrit]] about medicine. It talks about treating [[Madness]]. In Ancient [[Greece]], people normally thought [[Madness]] was caused by being cursed by one of the gods, usually [[Dionysus]], or was happening because someone was making a prophecy. But then [[Democritus]] and [[Hippocrates]] said Madness was caused by physical [[disease]]. Democritus experimented on animals to figure out how that worked. There were still people in [[Ancient Rome]] and in the [[Middle Ages|Dark Ages]] who believed Madness was caused by [[Demonic possession]] and could be cured by [[Exorcism|excorcism]]. In [[Iraq]], in the 9th Century, people started to build hospitals called [[Bimaristan|bimaristans]] which had rooms for people who were [[Violence|violent]] and [[Insanity defense|insane]]. In the 13th Century, people in Christian Europe started to build hospitals for mad people called lunatic asylums but they were used mainly to keep them inside instead of trying to cure them. == The Anatomy of Melancholy == In 1621, a man named [[Robert Burton]] wrote a book about [[Madness]] called [[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]. Burton said that knowing how the human mind works was the most important thing there was. == Humanitarian Reform == In 1758, [[William Battie]] wrote a book called Treatise on Madness. He said [[Madness]] was caused by physical problems with the [[Brain]] and the rest of the [[Body]]. He criticized a British hospital called [[Bedlam]] for treating mad people badly. In 1789, [[George III]] went mad and people in Great Britain started to say that [[Madness]] was a disease to be cured. A [[Quakers|Quaker]] named [[William Tuke]] said that Insane Asylums were doing a bad job and that they should use [[therapy]] instead. [[Philippe Pinel]] made the same arguments as Tuke did in France. == Modern Psychiatry == In 1808, a German doctor named [[Johann Christian Reil]] started to use the word [[Psychiatry]] to mean using