ALL TOO HUMAN ‘ENTHUSIASM’:
PIONEERING PSYCHIATRY CASAUBON, Meric.
A Treatise concerning Enthusiasme, as it is an effect of nature but is mistaken by many for either divine inspiration, or diabolical possession.
First edition of the first separate treatise on ‘enthusiasm’, a pioneering work of psychiatry avant la lettre and one of the most ground-breaking publications in a very public controversy. Of all Casaubon’s books, this has been shown as the most directly linked to the publication of John Dee’s manuscript Spiritual Diaries, in which enterprise Casaubon was instrumental.
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