The nature of melancholy : from Aristotle to Kristeva / edited by Jennifer Radden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radden, Jennifer, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melancholy.

Depression, Mental.

Depression--history.

Depressive Disorder--history.

Psychiatry--history.

Medical Subjects:

Depression--history.

Depressive Disorder--history.

Psychiatry--history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 373 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

From Aristotle to Kristeva

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Spanning twenty-four centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. The editor provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction: From Melancholic States to Clinical Depression""; ""PART I: ARISTOTLE TO FREUD""; ""1 Brilliance and Melancholy""; ""2 Diseases of the Black Bile""; ""3 Accidie""; ""4 Black Bile and Melancholia""; ""5 Melancholia in Men and Women""; ""6 Learned People and Melancholy""; ""7 Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons""; ""8 Melancholy Nuns""; ""9 Melancholy""; ""10 Melancholic States""; ""11 The Melancholy Character""; ""12 How to Help Melancholicks""; ""13 The Spleen""; ""14 The Chronic Disease of Melancholy""; ""15 Werther's Death""

""16 Illness of the Cognitive Faculties""""17 Melancholia""; ""18 Hypochondriasis or Tristimania""; ""19 ""Ode on Melancholy"" and ""What the Thrush Said""""; ""20 Hypochondriasis and Melancholia""; ""21 ""Autumn Song"" and ""Spleen""""; ""22 Green Sickness and Wertherism""; ""23 Affectivity in Mental Disorder""; ""24 Depressive States""; ""25 Loss""; ""PART II: AFTER FREUD""; ""26 The Depressive Position""; ""27 A Learned Helplessness Model of Depression""; ""28 A Cognitivist Analysis of Depression""; ""29 Affiliation, Cultural Roles, and Women's Depression""

""30 Mourning the Lost Mother and the Lost Self""""31 Biomedical Analyses of Depression""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Credits""; ""Index"";

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-368) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-028810-8

1-280-83759-4

9786610837595

0-19-802967-5

OCLC:

428979564