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From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
Åsa Jansson
2021
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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Keywords
- Asylum records
- British & Irish history
- European History
- History
- History of Britain and Ireland
- history of medicine
- History: specific events & topics
- Humanities
- insanity
- Madness
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- Mental pain
- Mood Disorders
- open access
- Other branches of medicine
- Physiology
- Psychiatric illness
- Psychiatry
- Psychological distress
- Psychology
- Regional & national history
- Social & cultural history
- Social history
- Statistical and diagnostic practices
- Suicidal tendencies
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54802-5web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-54802-5
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