Owen Davies is professor of social history at the University of Hertfordshire. He has published widely on the history of witchcraft, magic, ghosts, and popular medicine, including Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, Paganism: A Very Short Introduction, and America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft after Salem.
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The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorized and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behavior were divided up into th... SEE MORE