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UNINA9910136241003321 |
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Autore |
Radden Jennifer |
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Titolo |
Melancholic habits : Burton's anatomy & the mind sciences / / Jennifer Radden |
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New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
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0-19-065150-4 |
0-19-934821-9 |
0-19-934820-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Embodied mentality -- Imagination queen of the mental powers -- Symptom, disease, cause -- Between the confines of sense and reason -- The akratic melancholic -- When reason is also corrupted -- Who labors not of this disease? -- Remedies -- From the anatomy to the clinic and lab. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Jennifer Radden finds, within Robert Burton's religious and humoral explanations in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy', a remarkably coherent account of normal and abnormal psychology with echoes in modern day clinical psychology. |
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