Skip to main content
Ancient Science of Life logoLink to Ancient Science of Life
. 1981 Jul-Sep;1(1):25–31.

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN THE EARLY AURVEDIC TEXTS: (With Special reference to unmada)*

Mitchell g Weiss 1
PMCID: PMC3336656  PMID: 22556458

Abstract

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.

Full Text

The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (54.8 KB).


Articles from Ancient Science of Life are provided here courtesy of Wolters Kluwer -- Medknow Publications

RESOURCES