Moody minds distempered essays on melancholy and depression - Radden, Jennifer (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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)
Introduction. Section 1: 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. Section 2: CATEGORIES: Melancholy and Depression as Medical, Psychological, and Moral Concepts. 4. Is this Dame Melancholy? Equating Depression and Melancholia. 5. The Psychiatry of Cross Cultural Suffering. 6. Epidemic Depression and Burtonian Melancholy. 7. Emotional