When did psychotherapy begin?
When did psychotherapy begin? Purposeful, theoretically based psychotherapy was probably first developed in the Middle East during the 9th century by the Persian physician and psychological thinker, Rhazes, who was at one time the chief physician of the Baghdad bimaristan. Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) received some of the earliest recognition as a founder […]
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