Sedivec V
Cesk Psychiatr. 1993 Dec;89(6):373-5.
In antique medicine mania and melancholia were diagnosed as impairment of sense and imagination. Aretaeus considered that the difference between them was that melancholia was "partial" insanity (anxiety of the soul caused by a single idea), while mania was insanity of the "whole soul". This concept led to extension of both terms, in particular melancholia which composed also paranoid and hallucinatory symptomatology. This concept persisted to the beginning of the 19th century.
在古代医学中，躁狂症和忧郁症被诊断为感觉和想象力的损害。阿雷泰乌斯认为它们之间的区别在于，忧郁症是“局部”精神错乱（由单一想法引起的灵魂焦虑），而躁狂症是“整个灵魂”的精神错乱。这一概念导致了这两个术语的扩展，尤其是忧郁症，它还包括偏执和幻觉症状。这一概念一直持续到19世纪初。
