Interview with the assyriologist James Kinnier Wilson who uncovered and translated ancient Iraqi psychiatric cuneiform texts

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The current paper describes an interview with the renowned British Assyriologist James Kinnier Wilson who is in his 90s and did a lot of work to uncover and translate the psychiatric medical cuneiform texts of ancient Iraqis.

The author published an article in the Arab Journal of Psychiatry in 2004 titled Introduction to the Psychiatry of Ancient Mesopotamia, which was a review of Professor Kinnier Wilson’s research on the subject.