TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jansson, Åsa
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-54802-5
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20201013_9783030548025_47
KW  - Social History
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - History of Britain and Ireland
KW  - Mood disorders
KW  - Psychiatric illness
KW  - Physiology
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Statistical and diagnostic practices
KW  - Asylum records
KW  - Insanity
KW  - Madness
KW  - Mental pain
KW  - Suicidal tendencies
KW  - Psychological distress
KW  - Open Access
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - History of medicine
KW  - European history
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/049e2be9-1de8-4fd4-9717-996c28846743/2021_Book_FromMelancholiaToDepression.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42575
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2021
TI  - From Melancholia to Depression : Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
ER  - 
