Am J Psychiatry 1980; 137:1095-1098
Copyright © 1980 by American Psychiatric Association
Depression as expressed in pre-Columbian Mexican art
JR de la Fuente and D Alarcon-Segovia
While undertaking a larger study dealing with representations of disease in
pre-Columbian ceramic figures, the authors found four figures in which
depression was clearly depicted. Their findings prove that psychiatric
disorders did not go unnoticed by the people who inhabited the American
continent before the arrival of the Spanish.
