Moody minds distempered
Subtitle: essays on melancholy and depression
By: Jennifer Radden.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780195338287
Subjects: Melancholy; Depression, Mental; Depression -- Collected Works; Depressive Disorder -- Collected Works; Affect -- Collected Works; Depression -- history -- Collected Works; Depressive Disorder -- history -- Collected Works; Philosophy, Medical -- Collected Works
Genres: Collected Works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Melancholia in the writing of a sixteenth century Spanish nun; title: Melancholy, history of a concept; title: Melancholy and melancholia; title: Is this dame melancholy? Equating depression and melancholia; title: The psychiatry of cross cultural suffering; title: Epidemic depression and Burtonian melancholy; title: Emotional pain and psychiatry; title: Lumps and bumps: Kantian faculty psychology, phrenology, and twentieth century; title: Love and loss in Freud's "mourning and melancholia": a rereading; title: My symptoms, myself : reading mental illness memoirs for identity assumptions; title: Melancholy, mood, and landscape; title: Review of Against depression by Peter Kramer (Viking 2005).