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

di Åsa Jansson (Autore)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021

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. 

• Autore: Åsa Jansson
• Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Collana: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 234 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9783030548049

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