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The Physiology of Faith

The Forty-third Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, 15 November 1968

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

William Sargant
William Sargant*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital, London, S.E.1
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Extract

‘As for the bodily temper of man and his Brain… a very little distemper of the brain… is enough to represent Spirits, Angels and Devils, Sights and Stories of Heaven and Hell to the Fancy… which sober kind of madnesses and delineation (is) little understood vulgarly’.

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The Forty-Third Maudsley Lecture
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 522 , May 1969 , pp. 505 - 518
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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