From Melancholia to Depression [electronic resource] : Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

• Tác giả: Åsa Jansson
• Ngôn ngữ: ger
• ISBN-13: 978-3030548025
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 306.09 Culture and institutions
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: XV, 234 p. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 169571
• Chủ đề: 1. Great Britain-History; 2. Medicine-History; 3. Psychiatry; 4. Social history; 5. Social History; 6. History of Britain and Ireland; 7. History of Medicine

Tóm tắt

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. .