07.04.2017 - By Professor Rab Houston
We begin our exploration of the voices of the mad with the story of the Rev. George Trosse, an English nonconformist minister, who wrote about his experience of mental illness in his autobiography in the 1650s. Although he realised he was ill, he saw his experiences as a supernatural struggle.
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