Author : Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1040239668
As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
Author : Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1040248837
As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
Author : Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1040244815
As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
Author : Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1040243738
As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
Author : Åsa Jansson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 3030548023
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.
Author : Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781138752467
As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: 'melancholy' carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
Author : A. Ryrie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137490985
Puritanism has a reputation for being emotionally dry, but seventeenth-century Puritans did not only have rich and complex emotional lives, they also found meaning in and drew spiritual strength from emotion. From theology to lived experience and from joy to affliction, this volume surveys the wealth and depth of the Puritans' passions.
Author : Allan Ingram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137597186
This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating them to current social fashions and trends. These essays also look at ways in which diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural, moral, religious and even political meaning. Works of literature are used as evidence, but also medical writings, personal correspondence and diaries. Diseases or conditions subject to scrutiny include syphilis, male impotence, plague, smallpox and consumption. Death, finally, is looked at both in terms of writers constructing meanings within death and of the fashioning of posthumous reputation.
Author : A. Ingram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230306594
Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.
Author : Jane Couchman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317041046
Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.
