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Witchcraft, Psychopathology and Hallucinations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Bernard Barnett*
Affiliation:
Mapperley Hospital, Nottingham

Extract

The urgent need to act and explain one's reasons is less pressing now in connection with witchcraft than in the days when it seemed to present an immediate menace to society. It has however always evoked intense reactions without a corresponding intense examination of the available evidence. The subject seems to invite partisan treatment.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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