Demonology, cybernetics and the relationship between psychiatry and primary care

Rhodri Hayward is a Reader in the History of Medicine at Queen Mary, University of London, and a co-founder of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. He has published on the history of dreams, Pentecostalism, demonology, cybernetics, and the relations between psychiatry and primary care. His current research examines the rise and political implications of psychiatric epidemiology in modern Britain.

His book Resisting History: Popular Religion and the Invention of the Unconscious was published by Manchester University Press in 2007, and The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. He is a co-editor of the journal History of the Human Sciences.

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