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Article: Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2008
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Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon. By David Lederer. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 361. $90.00.)
This lucid study of the cultural history of spiritual psyche in Bavaria begins at the intersection of theology and science, and from there radiates to madness, politics, history, and the formation of early modern mentalities. It locates the genesis of the modern disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy within a complex network of early modern pastoral medicine that attended to a range of spiritual anguish, from simple affliction to demonic possessions, melancholia, and suicide. ...