From Melancholia to Depression

From Melancholia to Depression

Psychiatry

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.

Jansson, Åsa

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42575

Springer Nature

2021

Dewi Puspitasari

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Michel Foucault, History of Madness (London: Routledge, 2006 [1961]),
273.

Pdf

English

Textbooks

DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-54802-5

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