Contents; Introduction; PART I: History: Intellectual and Medical History of Melancholy and Depression; 1. Melancholia in the Writing of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Nun; 2. Melancholy: History of a Concept; 3. Melancholy and Melancholia; PART II: Categories: Melancholy and Depression as Medical, Psychological, and Moral Concepts; 4. Is this Dame Melancholy? Equating Today's Depression and Past Melancholia; 5. The Psychiatry of Cross-Cultural Suffering; 6. Epidemic Depression and Burtonian Melancholy; 7. Emotional Pain and Psychiatry; 8. Lumps and Bumps: Kantian Faculty Psychology, Phrenology, and Twentieth-Century Psychiatric Classification; 9. Love and Loss in Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia": A Rereading; PART III: Subjectivity: Melancholy as Subjective, Sad, and Apprehensive Moods; 10. My Symptoms, Myself: Reading Mental Illness Memoirs for Identity Assumptions; 11. Melancholy, Mood, and Landscape; 12. Review of Against Depression by Peter Kramer; Index. |