TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jansson,Åsa
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry 
T2  - Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
SN  - 9783030548025
AV  - HN 
U1  - 306.09 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Social history
KW  - Medicine—History
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Great Britain—History
KW  - Social History
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - History of Britain and Ireland
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54802-5
ER  -