Nature of Melancholy From Aristotle to Kristeva

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ISBN: 9780195151657

ISBN-10: 0195151658

ISBN-13: 9780195151657

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jennifer Radden

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Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. Editor Jennifer Radden provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression.…

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List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.09" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.518



Introduction: From Melancholic States to Clinical Depression



Aristotle to Freud



Aristotle (Or a Follower of Aristotle) Brilliance and Melancholy



Galen: Diseases of the Black Bile



Cassian: Accidie



Avicenna: Black Bile and Melancholia



Hildegard of Bingen: Melancholia in Men and Women



Ficino: Learned People and Melancholy



Weyer: Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons



Teresa of Avila: Melancholy Nuns



Bright: Melancholy



Burton: Melancholic States



Butler: The Melancholy Character



Mather: How to Help Melancholicks



Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: The Spleen



Boerhaave: The Chronic Disease of Melancholy



Goethe: Werther's Death



Kant: Illness of the Cognitive Faculties



Pinel: Melancholia



Rush: Hypochondriasis or Tristimania



Keats "Ode on Melancholy" and "What the Thrush Said"



Griesinger: Hypochondriasis and Melancholia



Baudelaire: "Autumn Song" and "Spleen"



Smiles: Green Sickness and Wertherism



Maudsley: Affectivity in Mental Disorder



Kraepelin: Depressive States



Freud: Loss



After Freud



Klein: The Depressive Position



Seligman: A Learned Helplessness Model of Depression



Beck: A Cognitivist Analysis of Depression



Miller: Affiliation, Cultural Roles, and Women's Depression



Kristeva: Mourning the Lost Mother and the Lost Self



Goodwin and Jamison: Biomedical Analyses of Depression


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