PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology, North-West Mounted Police, Canadian Mental Health Association
1 Dec 2013
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Churches gained influence during this time and through their missionary and educational work, they replaced physicians as healers and authorities on mental disorder. Monks cared and nursed the sick by: Concocted fantastic potions for them to drink in the waning phase of the moon. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were accused, tortured and put to death if they were believed to be witches. In 1484, pope innocent v||| exhorted the clergy of europe to extensively search for witches. He sent two dominican monks to northern germany as inquisitors. Two years later they issued a comprehensive and explicit manual, malleus maleficarum ( the. In the middle ages the mentally ill were generally considered witches. Witches were believed to be psychotic because in their confessions they were accused of having intercourse with the devil this has been interpreted by some writers as delusions and hallucinations.
