Overview
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.
- | Author: David Lederer
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: May 04, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 384 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521853478
- | ISBN-13: 9780521853477
