Moody minds distempered essays on melancholy and depression / Jennifer Radden.

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2008014454
ISBN9780195338287 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0195338286 (hardcover : alk. paper)