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dc.contributor.authorJansson, Åsa
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-13T12:30:10Z
dc.date.available2020-10-13T12:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20201013_9783030548025_47
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42575
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMental Health in Historical Perspective
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicineen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKL Psychiatryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.otherSocial History
dc.subject.otherHistory of Medicine
dc.subject.otherPsychiatry
dc.subject.otherHistory of Britain and Ireland
dc.subject.otherMood disorders
dc.subject.otherPsychiatric illness
dc.subject.otherPhysiology
dc.subject.otherPsychology
dc.subject.otherStatistical and diagnostic practices
dc.subject.otherAsylum records
dc.subject.otherInsanity
dc.subject.otherMadness
dc.subject.otherMental pain
dc.subject.otherSuicidal tendencies
dc.subject.otherPsychological distress
dc.subject.otherOpen Access
dc.subject.otherSocial & cultural history
dc.subject.otherHistory of medicine
dc.subject.otherEuropean history
dc.titleFrom Melancholia to Depression
dc.title.alternativeDisordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-54802-5
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages234


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