MacDonald M
Psychol Med. 1981 Feb;11(1):11-25. doi: 10.1017/s0033291700053241.
This paper argues that the attack on religious enthusiasm, a campaign against popular religious radicalism, prompted the governing classes in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England to embrace secular explanations of the nature of insanity and to repudiate treatments which were based on religious and magical beliefs. An objection to the argument is considered, and some of its implications are discussed.
本文认为，对宗教狂热的攻击，一场反对大众宗教激进主义的运动，促使17世纪末和18世纪英国的统治阶级接受对精神错乱本质的世俗解释，并摒弃基于宗教和魔法信仰的治疗方法。文中考虑了对这一论点的一种反对意见，并讨论了其一些影响。
