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'Madness' and the supernatural

History Extra podcast

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The Connection Between Belief, Insanity, and Witch Trials

The chapter explores how the medical profession studied historical materials, such as the witch trials, to understand insanity, and discusses the influence of psychiatrists on early historians and the language used to describe the witch trials.

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