From melancholia to depression : disordered mood in nineteenth-century psychiatry / Åsa Jansson.

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 illn...

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Main Author: Jansson, Åsa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Mental health in historical perspective.
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