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    • CHAPTER 15

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    FROM “DEMONIACAL POSSESSION” TO INSANITY.

  • I THEOLOGICAL IDEAS OF LUNACY AND ITS TREATMENT
    — The struggle for the scientific treatment of the insane
    — The primitive ascription of insanity to evil spirits
    — Better Greek and Roman theories
    — madness a disease
    — The Christian Church accepts the demoniacal theory of insanity
    — Yet for a time uses mild methods for the insane
    — Growth of the practice of punishing the indwelling demon
    — Two sources whence better things might have been hoped.
    — The reasons of their futility
    — The growth of exorcism
    — Use of whipping and torture
    — The part of art and literature in making vivid to the common mind the idea of diabolic activity
    — The effects of religious processions as a cure for mental disease
    — Exorcism of animals possessed of demons
    — Belief in the transformation of human beings into animals
    — The doctrine of demoniacal possession in the Reformed Church

  • II BEGINNINGS OF A HEALTHFUL SCEPTICISM
    — Rivalry between Catholics and Protestants in the casting out of devils
    — Increased belief in witchcraft during the period following the
    — Reformation
    — Increase of insanity during the witch persecutions
    — Attitude of physicians toward witchcraft
    — Religious hallucinations of the insane
    — Theories as to the modes of diabolic entrance into the possessed
    — Influence of monastic life on the development of insanity
    — Protests against the theological view of insanity
    — Wier, Montaigue
    — Bekker
    — Last struggles of the old superstition

  • III THE FINAL STRUGGLE AND VICTORY OF SCIENCE PINEL AND TUKE
    — Influence of French philosophy on the belief in demoniacal possession
    — Reactionary influence of John Wesley
    — Progress of scientific ideas in Prussia
    — In Austria
    — In America
    — In South Germany
    — General indifference toward the sufferings of madmen
    — The beginnings of a more humane treatment
    — Jean Baptiste Pinel
    — Improvement in the treatment of the insane in England.
    — William Tuke
    — The place of Pinel and Tuke in history

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