The first hospital for psychiatry was established in Europe in 1330. It was known as the Royal Bethlehem. It started with a small building, then was demolished and rebuilt several times.
Although this hospital is now one of the oldest hospitals with the trust of the UK Health Service, history tells of treating patients with extreme cruelty, caged in animal cages to be able to control them, and the use of strange treatment methods, Fix the patient on a chair, hang him with a rope in the ceiling, and then rotate the chair 100 times in one minute », in this hospital.
At the beginning of the Renaissance in Europe in 1500, the interest in science, scientific interpretations, psychological illness, away from the magic and demons that was previously explained, returned to the surface again, and these theories were issued by Paracelsus and Cornelius Agriba.
In 1518 the Royal College of Physicians, under the order of King Henry VIII of England, was set up to protect the public from the Antichrist. Psychiatry became a branch of medicine, and during the 18th and 19th centuries it developed a branch of neuroscience and incorporated new theories of psychiatry.
Robert Burton, author of The Anatomy of Melancholia in 1621, wrote about the definition of melancholia, depression, its types, symptoms, causes, and philosophical and clinical treatment. Rene Descartes, 1637, went to the idea of separation from the body, Physical health is separate from mental health.