03547nam 22006855 450 991042094230332120251010075140.09783030548025(ebook)9783030548018(paperback)10.1007/978-3-030-54802-5(CKB)4100000011469520(DE-He213)978-3-030-54802-5(MiAaPQ)EBC6355554(Au-PeEL)EBL6355554(OCoLC)1243553253(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37850(Perlego)4369261(ODN)ODN0010068950(oapen)doab37850(EXLCZ)99410000001146952020200921d2021 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrom Melancholia to Depression Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry /by Åsa Jansson1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Mental Health in Historical Perspective,2634-6044Print version : 9783030548018 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem -- 2. The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood -- 3. The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine -- 4. Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry -- 5. Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia -- 6. Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum -- 7. Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification.This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical depression as a psychiatric illness in the twentieth century? At a time when the prevalence of mood disorders and antidepressant consumption are at an all-time high, the need for a comprehensive historical understanding of how modern depressive illness came into being has never been more urgent. This book addresses a significant gap in existing scholarly literature on melancholia, depression, and mood disorders by offering a contextualised and critical perspective on the history of melancholia in the first decades of psychiatry, from the 1830s until the turn of the twentieth century. .Mental Health in Historical Perspective,2634-6044Social historyMedicineHistoryPsychiatryGreat BritainHistorySocial HistoryHistory of MedicinePsychiatryHistory of Britain and IrelandSocial history.MedicineHistory.Psychiatry.Great BritainHistory.Social History.History of Medicine.Psychiatry.History of Britain and Ireland.306.09900HIS015000HIS054000MED039000MED105000bisacshJansson Åsa849962UkMaJRU9910420942303321From melancholia to depression1897909UNINA