People linked psychiatric disorders with witchcraft, demonology, and possession (Boehnlein, 14). The link between Christianity and Psychiatry is what helped to strengthen the justification of what was wrong with the person, as well as how to treat them, because people used religion as a way to defend themselves and accuse others of sin when people became sick. This was shown with the link between the two ideas, so people could diagnose the conditions of the people who were considered to have gone mad. The connection of Psychiatry and the Devil allowed people to justify any accusations, punishments, and treatments against those who were mentally ill, without being accused as unjust towards the mentally ill. The impact of religion on society’s perception of mental illnesses was the beginning of the judgment and persecution against those with psychological
People linked psychiatric disorders with witchcraft, demonology, and possession (Boehnlein, 14). The link between Christianity and Psychiatry is what helped to strengthen the justification of what was wrong with the person, as well as how to treat them, because people used religion as a way to defend themselves and accuse others of sin when people became sick. This was shown with the link between the two ideas, so people could diagnose the conditions of the people who were considered to have gone mad. The connection of Psychiatry and the Devil allowed people to justify any accusations, punishments, and treatments against those who were mentally ill, without being accused as unjust towards the mentally ill. The impact of religion on society’s perception of mental illnesses was the beginning of the judgment and persecution against those with psychological