By: Tom Cloyd - 2 minute read
(Published: 2018; reviewed: 2025-07-01)
Attempts to treat dis-eases1 of the mind go back as far as we have history of any kind of health care. In the beginning, people’s ideas of the nature of such problems, and how to deal with them, were routinely quite erroneous, with some exceptions.
Only in about the last 100 years plus have we begun to correctly grasp the nature of such problems and how best to deal with them. Even more recent is our grasp of how best to treat psychological trauma.
In our time, we now have excellent, effective, and often rapidly successful modes of treatment, something that is entirely new in human history.
Please see Psychotherapy and other interventions for psychological trauma and related mental disorders for a complete listing of brief articles in this section.
This is not a typo! I write it this way, here, to get you to see that the word we use to refer most often to physical ailments actually is referring to a state of mind. In other words, a physical situation in our body become a disease to use with it dis-eases us - when we object to it. ^
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