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The mystic mind : the psychology of medieval mystics and ascetics / Jerome Kroll and Bernard Bachrach.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: xi, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0415340519 (pbk.)
  • 0415340500 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.2/2/019 22
LOC classification:
  • BL625 .K76 2005
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Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Heroic asceticism and self-injurious behavior -- 3. Mysticism and altered states of consciousness -- 4. Pain and laceration of the flesh -- 5. Sleep deprivation -- 6. Fasting and starvation -- 7. Historical methods : selecting a database -- 8. Pathways to holiness -- 9. Radegund -- 10. Beatrice of Nazareth -- 11. Beatrice of Ornacieux -- 12. Henry Suso -- 13. Mental illness, hysteria, and mysticism -- 14. Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-263) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Heroic asceticism and self-injurious behavior -- 3. Mysticism and altered states of consciousness -- 4. Pain and laceration of the flesh -- 5. Sleep deprivation -- 6. Fasting and starvation -- 7. Historical methods : selecting a database -- 8. Pathways to holiness -- 9. Radegund -- 10. Beatrice of Nazareth -- 11. Beatrice of Ornacieux -- 12. Henry Suso -- 13. Mental illness, hysteria, and mysticism -- 14. Conclusion.

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