From Melancholia to Depression : Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry /

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 illn...

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Main Author:	Jansson, Åsa (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Series:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
Subjects:	Social history. Medicine-History. Psychiatry. Great Britain-History. Social History. History of Medicine. History of Britain and Ireland. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book