Moody minds distempered essays on melancholy and depression / Jennifer Radden.
| Author/creator | Radden, Jennifer |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | x, 198 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Melancholia in the writing of a sixteenth century Spanish nun -- Melancholy : history of a concept -- Melancholy and melancholia -- Is this dame melancholy? Equating today's depression and past melancholia -- The psychiatry of cross cultural suffering -- Epidemic depression and Burtonian melancholy -- Emotional pain and psychiatry -- Lumps and bumps: Kantian faculty psychology, phrenology, and twentieth century psychiatric classification -- Love and loss in Freud's "mourning and melancholia": a rereading -- My symptoms, myself : reading mental illness memoirs for identity assumptions -- Melancholy, mood, and landscape -- Review of Against depression by Peter Kramer (Viking 2005). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008014454 |
| ISBN | 9780195338287 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195338286 (hardcover : alk. paper) |