Moody minds distempered [[electronic resource] ] : essays on melancholy and depression / / Jennifer Radden

• Autore: Radden Jennifer
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 128.37; 128/.37
• Soggetto topico: Melancholy; Depression, Mental
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Moody minds distempered
• ISBN: 0-19-773091-4; 1-281-92557-8; 9786611925574; 0-19-971364-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816577503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II