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

By Åsa Jansson

1. Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem2. The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood 3. The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine4. Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry 5. Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia6. Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum7. Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030548015
• ISBN13: 9783030548018
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"