Given below are some statements. Read them carefully and choose the correct statement (s) from the given options.

Statement 1: In the Renaissance Period, demonology and superstition gained renewed importance in the explanation of abnormal behaviour. 

Statement 2: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were known as the Age of Reason and Enlightenment as the scientific method replaced faith and dogma as ways of understanding abnormal behaviour.

None of the given statement is correct.

In the Middle Ages, demonology and superstition gained renewed importance in the explanation of abnormal behaviour. Demonology related to a belief that people with mental problems were evil and there are numerous instances of ‘witch-hunts’ during this period. During the early Middle Ages, the Christian spirit of charity prevailed and St. Augustine wrote extensively about feelings, mental anguish and conflict. This laid the groundwork for modern psychodynamic theories of abnormal behaviour.

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were known as the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, as the scientific method replaced faith and dogma as ways of understanding abnormal behaviour.