Psychiatry | Psychology | Revelation | Consequences |
Paul Schilder (1962) contributions to Neuropsychiatry. | Richard Atkinson (1990) introduction to psychology | Thomas Hobbes (1669) in Leviathan | Extremist and violent religious behaviors Senseless religious practices. Outrageous intolerance, etc. |
Cases Studies Religious schizoids, i.e. hearing voices and seeing things e.g. girl who heard the voice of her god instructing her to jump into burning fire for purification | Case studies Abnormal deviant anti-social religious behavior, i.e. extremist mis-interpretation of religious scriptures e.g. Iranian Shiites flogging blood out of their bodies as acts of penance | Case study Madmen will not let us know who is a prophet and who is not a madman |