One place to start is Cristina Mazzoni, _Saint Hysteria: Neurosis,
Mysticism and Gender in European Culture_ (Ithaca, 1996).
> Are any of the readers of this list familiar with any books that
discuss
>mysticism versus madness and examine mystical or psychic episodes from a
>physiological framework as well as from a religious framework.
>
> Thank you in advance for any assistance.
>
> Deborah Harmes, Ph.D.
Darleen Pryds, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
On leave at the University of Notre Dame, 1999-2000
(219) 631-3967
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Virginia Tech.
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0227
tel. (540) 231-7004
http://www.cis.vt.edu/fac/pryds
"The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common
form of its innate violence. To allow oneself... to surrender to too many
demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone
in everything, is to succumb to
violence. More than that, it is cooperation in violence." --Thomas Merton
in _Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander_
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