Description
| Product ID: | 9783030548049 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective |
| Title: | From Melancholia to Depression |
| Subtitle: | Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry |
| Authors: | Author: Asa Jansson |
| Page Count: | 234 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, History of medicine, Psychiatry, Social & cultural history, History of medicine, Psychiatry |
| 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? 1. Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem 2. The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood 3. The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine 4. Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry 5. Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia 6. Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum 7. Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification |
| Imprint Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Publisher Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-23 |
