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Melancholic habits : Burton's anatomy & the mind sciences / Jennifer Radden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Radden, Jennifer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burton, Robert, 1577-1640. Anatomy of melancholy.
- Burton, Robert.
- Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
- Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 Anatomy of melancholy--Selections.
- Melancholy.
- Psychology.
- Medicine in literature.
- Medicine--History--17th century.
- Medicine.
- Depressive Disorder--history.
- Medicine in Literature.
- History, 17th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 Anatomy of melancholy--Selections.
- Depressive Disorder--history.
- Medicine in Literature.
- History, 17th Century.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 325 pages)
- Other Title:
- Burton's anatomy & the mind sciences
- Burton's anatomy and the mind sciences
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Jennifer Radden finds, within Robert Burton's religious and humoral explanations in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy', a remarkably coherent account of normal and abnormal psychology with echoes in modern day clinical psychology.
- Contents:
- Embodied mentality
- Imagination queen of the mental powers
- Symptom, disease, cause
- Between the confines of sense and reason
- The akratic melancholic
- When reason is also corrupted
- Who labors not of this disease?
- Remedies
- From the anatomy to the clinic and lab.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-065150-4
- 0-19-934821-9
- 0-19-934820-0
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