This essay talks about Plato's ideas about mental illness. Plato' believes that there are two claims. "One is that psychic illness--taken to include moral and mental failings--is the outcome of bodily defectiveness." One of the earliest record of mental instability.
Gill, C. (2008). The Body's Fault? Plato's Timaeus on Psychic Illness. In Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 98). Detroit: Gale. (Reprinted from Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato's Timaeus, pp. 59-84, by M. R. Wright, Ed., 2000, London, England: Duckworth)
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