From melancholia to depression : : disordered mood in nineteenth-century psychiatry / / Åsa Jansson.
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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| Superior document: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | First edition, 2021. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
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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.