From Melancholia to Depression : Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
1st ed. 2021
by
Asa Jansson
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Mental Health in Historical Perspective
ISBN-10
303054804X
ISBN-13
9783030548049
Edition
1st ed. 2021
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 23rd, 2021
Print length
234 Pages
Weight
334 grams
Dimensions
28.80 x 23.40 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
British & Irish historySocial & cultural historyHistory of medicinePsychiatry
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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 illness in the twentieth century?
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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