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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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| 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.