Moody minds distempered : essays on melancholy and depression / Jennifer Radden
- Author:
- Radden, Jennifer
- Published:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Physical Description:
- x, 198 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Melancholia in the writing of a sixteenth century Spanish nun -- Melancholy : history of a concept -- Melancholy and melancholia -- Is this dame melancholy? Equating today's depression and past melancholia -- The psychiatry of cross cultural suffering -- Epidemic depression and Burtonian melancholy -- Emotional pain and psychiatry -- Lumps and bumps: Kantian faculty psychology, phrenology, and twentieth century psychiatric classification -- Love and loss in Freud's "mourning and melancholia": a rereading -- My symptoms, myself : reading mental illness memoirs for identity assumptions -- Melancholy, mood, and landscape -- Review of Against depression by Peter Kramer (Viking 2005).
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780195338287 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0195338286 (hardcover : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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