The ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, China, India, and Persia all engaged

in the philosophical study of psychology. Historians note that Greek philosophe

rs, including Thales, Plato, and Aristotle (especially in his De Anima treatise)
,[16] addressed the workings of the mind.[17] As early as the 4th century BC, Gr
eek physician Hippocrates theorized that mental disorders had physical rather th
an supernatural causes.[18]