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      Human beings have always tried to cure psychological disorders through the body. In the Hippocratic tradition, melancholics were advised to drink white wine, in order to counteract the black bile. (This remains an option).


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MENAND, Louis. Head case: can psychiatry be a science? The New Yorker, New York, v. LXXXVI, n. 2, p. 69-74, mar. 2010.