From Melancholia to Depression : Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry / by Åsa Jansson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jansson, Åsa, author.

Series:

Mental Health in Historical Perspective, 2634-6044

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history.

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

Psychiatry.

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Social History.

History of Medicine.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Local Subjects:

Social History.

History of Medicine.

Psychiatry.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This 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. .

Contents:

1. Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem

2. The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood

3. The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine

4. Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry

5. Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia

6. Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum

7. Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9783030548025

OCLC:

1243553253