You are a contestant on Jeopardy! and it is your turn. You say to Alex, "I'll take Ancient Explanations of Mental Illness for $100." The answer is, "His was the first recorded attempt to explain abnormal behavior as due to some physical causes." The smile on your face reveals the confidence you have as you say,

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The field of psychiatry owes much to the teachings of Hippocrates, who is famous for having said "It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has." He believed that illnesses, both physical and mental, were caused by natural factors, not by the gods, and he considered the brain to be the source of consciousness, sensation, thought, and emotion.

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