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Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon

Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon

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Series: New Studies in European History

General European HistoryGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0521123631
ISBN13: 9780521123631
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 19 2009
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This major new study of psychiatry and psychology--during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--traces the struggle between politics and popular culture which influenced the scientific revolution. David Lederer explores the treatment of mental illness in society before the emergence of professional psychiatry, the use of spiritual remedies ('spiritual physic') to deal with physical and mental ailments from melancholy to demonic possession, how early modern people understood the soul and the impact of the Counter-Reformation on all these issues.

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