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

by Owen Davies

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019887300X
• ISBN13: 9780198873006
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"