| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Mental health in historical perspective |
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Mental health in historical perspective.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Social History |
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History of Medicine |
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Psychiatry |
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History of Britain and Ireland |
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Mood disorders |
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Psychiatric illness |
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Physiology |
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Psychology |
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Statistical and diagnostic practices |
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Asylum records |
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Insanity |
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Madness |
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Mental pain |
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Suicidal tendencies |
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Psychological distress |
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Open Access |
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Social & cultural history |
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History of medicine |
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European history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2020) |
| Subject |
Depression, Mental -- History -- 19th century
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Melancholy -- History -- 19th century
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Psychiatry -- History -- 19th century
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Social History.
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Depression -- history
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Depressive Disorder -- history
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Depression, Mental
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Melancholy
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Psychiatry
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030548025 |
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3030548023 |
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