During the Renaissance period, which began in 14th Century Italy and spread throughout Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, the ideas of mental illnesses and its causes were constantly progressing and regressing at times. Witch-hunts and executions of the mentally ill were quite common throughout Europe. Although, there were some doctors who returned to the perspective of Hippocrates, asserting that mental illnesses wee because of natural causes, and that what people called “witches” then, were actually mentally disturbed people who are in need of human medical
