ABSTRACT
Historically, the study of mind/body interaction can be traced to early Greek physicians. Indeed, when one begins a search of its earliest origins, one inevitably is led to Hippocrates and Galen of ancient Greece. To the ancient Greeks, emotions were seen to play a significant role in the progress and maintenance of diseases. What today is known as tuberculosis was described symptomologically by Hippocrates and prescribed to have its etiology in stress. However, the importance of the role of the mind in maintaining health has passed through many significant perceptions since that time. Until recently, post-Descartian thinking resulted in the mind’s role in immune functioning being allocated to the periphery of medicine.
