| Description |
xv, 373 pages : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part 1: Aristotle to Freud -- 1. Aristotle (or a Follower of Aristotle), Melancholy, from Problems -- 2. Galen, Diseases of the Black Bile, from On the Affected Parts -- 3. Cassian, Of the Spirit of Accidie, from The Foundations of the Cenobitic Life and the Eight Capital Sins Book X Chapters I-IV -- 4. Avicenna, On Black Bileand Melancholia, from Canon of Medicine -- 5. Hildegard of Bingen, Melancholia in Men and Women, from Holistic Healing -- 6. Ficino, Learned People and Melancholy, from The Three Books of Life -- 7. Weyer, Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons, from Of Deceiving Demons -- 8 Teresa of Avila, Melancholy Nuns, from The Interior Castle, and The Foundations. -- 9. Bright, Melancholy from Treatise of Melancholy -- 10. Burton, Melancholic States, from The Anatomy of Melancholy -- 11. Butler, A Melancholy Man, from Characters -- 12. Mather, The Cure of Melancholy, from The Angel of Bethesda -- 13. Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, from The Spleen -- 14. Boerhaave, Chronical Diseases, from Aphorisms Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases -- 15. Goethe, Werther's Death, from The Sorrows of Young Werther -- 16. Kant, Illnesses of Cognitive Faculties, from Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View -- 17. Pinel, Melancholia, from A Treatise on Insanity -- 18. Rush, Of the Remedies for Hypochondriasis or Tristimania, from Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind -- 19. Keats, Ode on Melancholy, Darkness Sonnet -- 20. Griesinger, States of Mental Depression, from Mental Pathology and Therapeutics -- 21. Baudelaire, Autumn Song, Spleen -- 22. Smiles, On Green Sickness and Wertherism, from Self Help -- 23. Maudsley, Ideational Insanity, from The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind -- 24. Kraepelin, Manic Depressive Insanity, from Textbook of Psychiatry -- 25. Freud, Mourning and Melancholia -- Part 2: After Freud -- 26. Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States -- 27. Seligman, The Learned Helplessness Model of Depression, from Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death -- 28. Beck, The Paradoxes of Depression, from Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders -- 29. Miller, Ties to Others, from Toward a New Psychology of Women -- 30. Kristeva, Psychoanalysis--A Counterdepressant, from The Black Sun: Depression and Melancholy -- 31. Goodwin and Jameson, Biomedical Models, from Manic-Depressive Illness |
| Summary |
"Spanning twenty four centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections from important Western writing about melancholy and related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. It reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond to, and build on each other's work. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first collection of original texts on melancholy, melancholia, and depression." "Arranged historically and accompanied by introductory notes for the general reader, the selections emphasize conceptual questions about the nature of melancholic states, their definition, classification, and alleged causal origin, as well as their characteristic signs, symptoms, and subjectivity. Among the selections are writings by such diverse authors as Galen, Hildegard of Bingen, Weyer, Rush, Keats, Baudelaire, Kraepelin, Freud, and Beck. This up-to-date collection presents recent authoritative translations of works either long out of print in English or never before translated into English." "This anthology will be an excellent text for courses in psychology, philosophy of mind, medicine, social work, women's studies, and cultural studies. The Nature of Melancholy will also be fruitful reading for those who suffer from depression, as well as their families, care-givers, clinicians, and therapists."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-368) and index |
| Notes |
Also available online (Table of contents) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Melancholy -- History -- Sources.
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Melancholy.
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Depression -- history.
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| Author |
Radden, Jennifer.
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| LC no. |
99016828 |
| ISBN |
0195129628 (alk. paper) |
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0195151658 |
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