Nature of Melancholy [[electronic resource] ] : From Aristotle to Kristeva

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782209003321
• Autore: Radden Jennifer
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0-19-028810-8; 1-280-83759-4; 9786610837595; 0-19-802967-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RaddenJennifer
• Disciplina: 152.4
• Soggetti: Melancholy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Introduction: From Melancholic States to Clinical Depression""; ""PART I: ARISTOTLE TO FREUD""; ""1 Brilliance and Melancholy""; ""2 Diseases of the Black Bile""; ""3 Accidie""; ""4 Black Bile and Melancholia""; ""5 Melancholia in Men and Women""; ""6 Learned People and Melancholy""; ""7 Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons""; ""8 Melancholy Nuns""; ""9 Melancholy""; ""10 Melancholic States""; ""11 The Melancholy Character""; ""12 How to Help Melancholicks""; ""13 The Spleen""; ""14 The Chronic Disease of Melancholy""; ""15 Werther's Death""; ""16 Illness of the Cognitive Faculties""""17 Melancholia""; ""18 Hypochondriasis or Tristimania""; ""19 ""Ode on Melancholy"" and ""What the Thrush Said""""; ""20 Hypochondriasis and Melancholia""; ""21 ""Autumn Song"" and ""Spleen""""; ""22 Green Sickness and Wertherism""; ""23 Affectivity in Mental Disorder""; ""24 Depressive States""; ""25 Loss""; ""PART II: AFTER FREUD""; ""26 The Depressive Position""; ""27 A Learned Helplessness Model of Depression""; ""28 A Cognitivist Analysis of Depression""; ""29 Affiliation, Cultural Roles, and Women's Depression""; ""30 Mourning the Lost Mother and the Lost Self""""31 Biomedical Analyses of Depression""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Credits""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Part 1: Aristotle to Freud 1. Aristotle (or a Follower of Aristotle), Melancholy, from Problems 2. Galen, Diseases of the Black Bile, from On the Affected Parts 3. Cassian, Of the Spirit of Accidie, from The Foundations of the Cenobitic Life and the Eight Capital Sins Book X Chapters I-IV 4. Avicenna, On Black Bile and Melancholia, from Canon of Medicine 5. Hildegard of Bingen, Melancholia in Men and Women, from Holistic Healing 6. Ficino, Learned People and Melancholy, from The Three Books of Life 7. Weyer, Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons, from Of Deceiving Demons 8 Teresa