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

Jansson, Åsa - Personal Name;

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? At a time when the prevalence of mood disorders and antidepressant consumption are at an all-time high, the need for a comprehensive historical understanding of how modern depressive illness came into being has never been more urgent. This book addresses a significant gap in existing scholarly literature on melancholia, depression, and mood disorders by offering a contextualised and critical perspective on the history of melancholia in the first decades of psychiatry, from the 1830s until the turn of the twentieth century.

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Call Number: 616.8527009034 JAN f
Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan., 2021
Collation: xv, 234p. : ill.
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9783030548025
Classification: 616.8527009034
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Subject(s): Social History
medicine
Psychiatry
Melancholy
Depression, Mental
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Statement of Responsibility: by Åsa Jansson

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