Tavistock Classic Reprints in the History of Psychiatry

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1. Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London

   EEdward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case

   Edited by Michael MacDonald

   Series: Tavistock Classic Reprints in the History of Psychiatry

   Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden showed that hysteria and not demons lay behind the witch-craze. Edward Jorden's Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) is said to have reclaimed the demoniacally possessed for medicine and to have...

   Published December 5th 1990 by Routledge