Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
New Books in Psychology
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The Causes of Madness
chapter two talks about the way families manage this. And one of the things that this section tells us is a lot of what are believed to be the causes of madness, like how one becomes mad. So you're without reason is the deal here and you're not a... It feels like there's something kind of infantilizing or against that's the point, right? You're in care. You're not responsible for your sins, nor anything. Yeah. This is another reason why I think we don't see a ton of people claiming madness as the cause for why they committed whatever crime they committed because there are repercussions to making that claim. That's not a great position to be in
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