From melancholia to depression : disordered mood in nineteenth-century psychiatry

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jansson, Åsa. author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer Nature 2021
2021.
Edición:First edition, 2021.
Colección:Mental Health in Historical Perspective.
Materias:
Depression, Mental > History > 19th century.
Melancholy > History > 19th century.
Psychiatry > History > 19th century > United Kingdom.
Social History
History of Medicine
Psychiatry
History of Britain and Ireland
Mood disorders
Psychiatric illness
Physiology
Psychology
Statistical and diagnostic practices
Asylum records
Insanity
Madness
Mental pain
Suicidal tendencies
Psychological distress
Open Access
Social & cultural history
History of medicine
European history
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439198106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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