TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,Owen
TI  - Troubled by faith: insanity and the supernatural in the age of the asylum 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780191983863
AV  - RC455.4.R4 
U1  - 200.9034 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Psychiatry and religion
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Belief and doubt
KW  - Religion
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Religion & beliefs
KW  - thema
N1  - Also issued in print: 2023; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world. The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Psychiatrists not only thought they could transform society in the industrial age but also explain the many strange beliefs expressed in the distant past. 'Troubled by Faith' explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198873006.001.0001
ER  -