From Melancholia to Depression : Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry Paperback / softback
by Asa Jansson
Part of the Mental Health in Historical Perspective series
Paperback / softback
- Information
Description
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.
Information
-
Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:234 pages, XV, 234 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:23/09/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030548049
Other Formats
- EPUB from £2.84
Information
-
Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:234 pages, XV, 234 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:23/09/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030548049
