Madly through the eyes of historians. Anthology. Comp. Zislin I.

Moscow holy fool, medieval French prostitute, obsessed with a German nun, inhabitants of Irish hills, stealing other people's wives, - only a few heroes of this book. Did they suffer from mental disorders? How and why did the medieval society perceive or rejected the crazy? Can a description created by a historian or anthropologist on the basis of documents or legends be useful to today's doctor? The published works are presented precisely from a clinical point of view and addressed to psychiatrists and psychologists.