>>22254307they are, in the sense that both are lenses to view the same thing
you don't have 'severe mental illness' as a concept without:
>demons or other supernatural explanationbeyonde all mortall reckoning
>then ill humoursa surfeit of bile or an excess of blood
>then moral failinga punishment for thy iniquities
>then mental diseasean infirmity of mental constitution
>then psychopathological mental illnessa disorder of one's faculties
only then can you arrive at the contemporary psychological view of: 'a severe mental illness'
the actual causes are pretty wide-ranging, and there are often identified genetic, neurological, or environmental traits which people with a condition share which seem to be the cause
so is it the demons, or the complex environeurogenetic factors which take a lot more understanding?
I think they're the same thing
