Title: "Shattered nerves" : doctors, patients, and depression in Victorian England /
Authors: Oppenheim, Janet, 1948-1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Neurotic Disorders; Depressive Disorder therapy; Depressive Disorder; Depression, Mental history.; Depression; Depressed persons England Biography.; Depression, Mental Treatment England History; Depression, Mental England History; Depression therapy; England
Abstract: An examination of pre-Freudian psychiatric developments illustrated with biographical sketches of doctors and patients alike. The text attempts to place a puzzling medical problem in its full social, cultural and intellectual context.