Moody minds distempered : essays on melancholy and depression / Jennifer Radden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radden, Jennifer, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melancholy.

Depression, Mental.

Affect (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 'Moody Minds Distempered' philosopher Jennifer Radden assembles several decades of her research on melancholy and depression.

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).

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773091-4

1-281-92557-8

9786611925574

0-19-971364-2

OCLC:

654778034