Discernible examples of mental health care in pre-industrial Europe.

by dmulla78

Currently researching to create an information outlet regarding mental illness. Need to ensure there are no glaring omissions/interesting oddities. Obscure incidences of mental illness would also be interesting, but primarily examples of treatment. I understand this is an unclear subject. There's obviously blurry lines around what could be regarded as treatment or illness, and other obscuring factors. Nonetheless any help would be much appreciated.

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In his 1954 work Mental Illness and Psychology, the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault notes that in pre-modern Europe, people considered "mad" were frequently wards of the Church. According to Foucault, it wasn't until they started being housed in hospitals that a discourse on mental illness developed.