From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century PsychiatryThis open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical depression as a psychiatric illness in the twentieth century? At a time when the prevalence of mood disorders and antidepressant consumption are at an all-time high, the need for a comprehensive historical understanding of how modern depressive illness came into being has never been more urgent. This book addresses a significant gap in existing scholarly literature on melancholia, depression, and mood disorders by offering a contextualised and critical perspective on the history of melancholia in the first decades of psychiatry, from the 1830s until the turn of the twentieth century. |
Contents
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2 The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood | 34 |
3 The Classification of Melancholia in MidNineteenthCentury British Medicine | 63 |
4 Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry | 89 |
5 Statistics Classification and the Standardisation of Melancholia | 123 |
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From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry Åsa Jansson No preview available - 2020 |
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry Åsa Jansson No preview available - 2020 |
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