Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum by Owen Davies

Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum

Owen Davies

367 pages first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history philosophy psychology
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 The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth ...

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