From Melancholia to Depression Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry /
This 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 illn...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem
- 2. The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood
- 3. The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine
- 4. Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry
- 5. Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia
- 6. Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum
- 7. Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification.