From melancholia to depression : disordered mood in nineteenth-century psychiatry / Åsa Jansson.
2021
RC537 .J36 2021
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Title
From melancholia to depression : disordered mood in nineteenth-century psychiatry / Åsa Jansson.
Author
Jansson, Åsa, author.
ISBN
9783030548025 (electronic bk.)
3030548023 (electronic bk.)
3030548015
9783030548018
3030548023 (electronic bk.)
3030548015
9783030548018
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-030-54
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RC537 .J36 2021
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616.8527009034
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2020).
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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.
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.