Hippocrates Played a Major Role in the Way the Causes

question 87

Multiple Choice

Hippocrates played a major role in the way the causes and treatment of mental disorders were viewed. However, his greatest contribution to psychology was

• A) being the father of psychoanalysis.
• B) proving the value of leading a healthy life in preventing madness.
• C) emphasizing the natural causes of mental illness.
• D) separating the causes of madness into medical and magical causes.
• E) his idea that psychological functioning resulted from disturbances of bodily fluids.

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