Johannes Weyer Rejected the Four Humours Theory of Mental Illness

question 19

True/False

Johannes Weyer rejected the four humours theory of mental illness and claimed that mental illness resulted from disturbances of the spiritus vitae.

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Freudian Psychologist

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