From Melancholia to Depression : Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

• Tác giả: Åsa Jansson
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 978-3-030-54802-5
• Thông tin xuất bản: Springer Nature 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (234 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 184001
• Chủ đề: 1. British & Irish history; 2. History of medicine; 3. Psychiatry; 4. Social & cultural history

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.