Two schools of psychiatry, the same way

The beginning of psychiatric medical care in Basarabia is related to the organization of "fraternities" and charity asylums on the territory of parishes and monasteries.Also, a series of provisions set forth in the "Rules" published in 1646 in the Iesian Printing House from the "Three Hierarchs" of Vasile Lupu, the ruler of Moldavia and of Varlaam, the metropolitan of Moldova, were adopted, which regulated sanitary and medical provisions.The assistance of the mentally ill in asylums and "fraternities" was motivated by "divine punishment" for which the basic treatment of these patients consisted of "ceasing prayer" and "administration of medicines" (1).The beginning of specialized medical care begins with the opening of the first local hospital in the city of Chisinau in 1817.