Psychiatry, Witchcraft Trails, & Religion

Written by: Melissa Kay Kinder

The witchcraft trials were the execution of witches, or people practicing magic outside of the Judeo-Christian religion. Only the churches were allowed, and everyone suspected of practicing a different type of magic were murdered. People did believe in magic (or the psychic realm) inside of their religion and outside of it. When the witchcraft trials stopped, both witches and people experiencing witchcraft outside of the Judeo-Christian religion started being called psychotic and locked away instead! Thus, psychiatry started being used to remove religious freedom and force only Judeo-Christianity. Drugs were created called anti-psychotics which caused death, severe neurological disorders, and life long disabilities keeping the takers of these drugs from ever participating in society again. Over time, people stopped believing that magic (or the psychic realm) outside of their religion is real. To this day, psychiatry has no separation from the Judeo-Christian religion, with many forced psychiatric hospitals having no separation from religion at all. And anything magic (or psychic) outside of the Judeo-Christian (or just Christian) religion is falsely considered psychosis and ‘mental’ illness only, when it is not.