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