To explain puzzling behavior, people in earlier times often presumed that strange forces—the movements of the stars, godlike powers, or evil spirits—were at work. Had you lived during the Middle Ages, you might have said “The devil made him do it,” and you might have approved of an exorcism to get rid of the evil demon. Until the last two centuries, “mad” people were sometimes caged in zoolike conditions or given “therapies” appropriate to a demon: beatings, burning, or castration. In other times, therapy included trephination (drilling holes in the skull), pulling teeth, removing lengths of intestines, or giving transfusions of animal blood (Farina, 1982)
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