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Addressing the relatively recent concern of public health in the issue of mental health problems, the evolution of the concept of mental illness in the occidental pre-modern history is revised, as well as the reasons why it remained outside the mainstream of the professional healing activity. The differences between the naturalist and the supernatural views are explored as well.

BACKGROUND In addition to economic and material burdens, caregivers of people with mental illness are exposed to psychosocial challenges. Self-stigma is among the psychological challenges that can be exacerbated by intrinsic and/or extrinsic factors. Caregivers' self-stigma can negatively influence the patients' treatment and rehabilitation process. The objective of this study was to measure th...

Human beings have relished the idea of possessing supernatural/superhuman powers for millennia. However, do some people desire such more than others based on specific individual differences and characteristics? We examined how in imaginative involvement (fantasy proneness, absorption) magical beliefs (superstitiousness religiousness) uniquely related to 12 supernatural (final N = 143); particip...

Abstract The early modern fairy is a long ignored transgender figure. This article presents transhistoricist analysis of how range “transgender” concepts manifest in the literary imagination—instabilities, transformations, ambiguities, or indeterminacies sex and gender—through representation fairies supernatural. It focuses on Ariel Shakespeare's Tempest, Duessa Spenser's Faerie Queene, Jocastu...

How have anthropologists related to extraordinary or supernatural phenomena (the transcendent) in disciplinary definitions of religion and the practice social analysis? This text argues that ...