Moody minds distempered : essays on melancholy and depression

Author(s)

• Radden, Jennifer

Bibliographic Information

Moody minds distempered : essays on melancholy and depression

Jennifer Radden

Oxford University Press, c2009

• : hardcover

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• Melancholia in the writing of a sixteenth century Spanish nun
• Melancholy, history of a concept
• Melancholy and melancholia
• Is this dame melancholy? Equating depression and melancholia
• The psychiatry of cross cultural suffering
• Epidemic depression and Burtonian melancholy
• Emotional pain and psychiatry
• Lumps and bumps: Kantian faculty psychology, phrenology, and twentieth century
• Love and loss in Freud's "mourning and melancholia": a rereading
• My symptoms, myself : reading mental illness memoirs for identity assumptions
• Melancholy, mood, and landscape
• Review of Against depression by Peter Kramer (Viking 2005)

Details

• NCID: BA88427648
• ISBN:
  • 9780195338287
• LCCN: 2008014454
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: x, 193 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF575.M44
  • NLM : WM 171
  • DC22 : 128/.37
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Melancholy
  • LCSH : Depression, Mental
  • MESH : Depression -- Collected Works
  • MESH : Depressive Disorder -- Collected Works
  • MESH : Affect -- Collected Works
  • MESH : Depression -- history -- Collected Works
  • MESH : Depressive Disorder -- history -- Collected Works
  • MESH : Philosophy, Medical -- Collected Works