Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry

Owen Davies

doi:10.1080/0015587X.2021.2017049

Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry

Owen Davies

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Abstract

The rise of the folklore movement in the nineteenth century coincided with the development of psychiatry as a discipline and as a profession. There is no evidence of folklorists visiting asylums for source material, and most psychiatrists showed little interest in the beliefs of their patients, but they both recorded folklore. While early folklorists were attracted to the new scholarly discipline of psychology, and later to psychoanalysis, it was actually the psychiatrists who left behind the most valuable archive of popular mentalities for contemporary folklorists to explore.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-24
Number of pages	24
Journal	Folklore
Volume	133
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2021.2017049
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 10 Mar 2022

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