Demon's Illusion

...One example is the case of Joan of Arc, who was burned at the stake for heresy, and her symptoms of insanity are detailed in the trial records. The Renaissance was a time of many contradictions in how to deal with insanity. On the one hand, persecution of witches was intensified, but on the other hand, asylums for the insane began to be established in Spain and elsewhere. The physician Johannes Weyer (1515-88) appeared in his work The Devil's Illusions (1563), which protested that "since most possessed people and witches are mentally ill, they should be left in the hands of physicians, not priests," sounding a loud bang on the side of medicine. This reform would later be called the "First Psychiatric Revolution" (G. Gilboeg), and it was this "revolution" that gave rise to the term "mental illness." ...

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…異端再犯のかどで火刑にされたジャンヌ･ダルクの場合もその一例で，彼女の狂気の〈症状〉はその《処刑裁判記録》に詳しい。　ルネサンスという時期は狂気への対応においてさまざまの矛盾をふくみ，魔女迫害が強行される一方では，狂人のための収容施設がスペインその他で設立されはじめ，医師ワイアーJohannes Weyer(1515‐88)の《悪魔の幻惑》(1563)が現れて，〈憑依者や魔女の多くは精神の病だから，僧侶にでなく医師の手にゆだねるべきである〉と抗議し，医学の側からの高い槌音を響かせた。こうした刷新はのちに〈第1次精神医学革命〉(G.ジルボーグ)と評されることになるが，この〈革命〉によって出現したのが〈精神病〉だった。…

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