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

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Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Contents
List of figures
PART I: A world of insanity
	Introduction
		Foundations
		The rise of the asylum
	1: Explaining away the witch trials
		Invisible fluids and brain organs
		Demonomania and the new demonologists
		The psychiatrist as historian
		What about witches?
		Too many manias
		Writing hystory
		The new witch prickers
		Gazing into the subconscious
	2: Pathologizing the supernatural present
		Demonomania redux
		Exorcizing the demons from medical discourse
		Religion as contemporary disease
		Evangelical super spreaders
		Symptom or cause?
		Spiritualism shakes things up
		Keeping it in the family
	3: Madness in popular medicine
		Frightened mad
		Looking to the skies
		Moon madness
		Mad as a dog
		Fits
		Supernatural agency
		Kill or cure
	4: The mad, the bad, and the supernatural in court
		The Devil made me do it
		The Devil gives way to delusion
		Eccentric or insane?
		The age of the experts
		Wills and witches
		Of spirits and undue influence
PART II: Inner lives
	Introduction
		Reading the records
		Life in the asylum
	5: Between Heaven and Hell
		Dealing with the religious
		Religious persecution
		Bibles and books
		Prophets, revelations, and the Second Coming
		Assuming divinity
		Saints and angels
		Visions of Heaven
		Dealing with the Devil
	6: Encounters with witches, spirits, and fairies
		From accusation to asylum
		Witchery in the asylum
		Feeling bewitched
		Haunted by spirits
		Fairies on the mind
	7: Making sense of science and technology
		The rise of the machine
		Mental science
		Electrickery
		Power and persecution
		Suspect devices
Epilogue
Endnotes
	Part 1: Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Part 2: Introduction
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
Index