ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an outline of the Catholic censorship of psychological views during the period between the rise of the Roman Congregations of the Inquisition and of the Index, and the first prohibitions of modern philosophy in the second half of the seventeenth century. It focuses on philosophical and scientific works and views; and theological treatises and ideas. The chapter discusses views and works that attracted the attention of the afore-mentioned Roman ecclesiastical bodies of doctrinal control. Psychology was one of the very few disciplinary areas of natural philosophy where orthodoxy could be judged on the basis of formal juridical grounds. The chapter provides a cursory overview of psychological orthodoxy in the Ancient Church and middle Ages, and of the challenges posed by early modern philosophy and science. It analyses some case studies and considers institutional aspects, in particular the effects of censorship.
