In ancient Greece anything was known about viruses and bacteria, but acknowledged that the personality and characteristics, play a fundamental role in the origins of the disease.
Galen, a gigantic figure of the ancient world, and noted the existence of a strong link between melancholy and breast cancer. Thus, in these early medical approaches, we found early on a holistic approach to consideration of health and disease.
Plato emphasized that good education is the force that tends to improve the mind with the body. Recognized in some way that the physical health leads to mental health, but at the same time, that good mental state predisposes the body good. Well established, specifically, that the soul is “good” by their own excellence, improves the body in every way.
In modern times, since the twentieth century especially, but also long before and even in ancient Eastern medicine, are beginning to recognize the need for a holistic conception of health. In this sense, perhaps the lesson to be learned so definitive and comprehensive is that “we are basically what we think.”
The psychosomatic concept requires us to address ourselves as a possible cause of disturbances of the body. This is universally recognized by the Western clinic, which sees the clinics in a very high percentage of queries answered distortions of the mind or personality, in the broadest sense.
This new approach is not a dualistic fashion | cartesian. Sees man as a unit, which often nest healing powers, which stimulated, help solve problems somatic. The medical non-materialistic philosophy thus increases in the world that otherwise could dominate conventional medicine.