The Nature of Melancholy
From Aristotle to Kristeva
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 May 2002
- ISBN 9780195151657
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 233x156x30 mm
- Weight 603 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones and line drawings 0
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Short description:
Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. Editor Jennifer Radden provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression. This important new collection is also beautifully illustrated with depictions of melancholy from Western fine art.
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Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. Editor Jennifer Radden provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression. This important new collection is also beautifully illustrated with depictions of melancholy from Western fine art.
Radden's invaluable anthology ... scrupulously presents the key texts ... does an excellent job of tracing the history of efforts to find a language capable of sheltering humanity from that storm [in the mind].
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Aristotle to Freud
Aristotle (or a Follower of Aristotle), Melancholy, from Problems
Galen, Diseases of the Black Bile, from On the Affected Parts
Cassian, Of the Spirit of Accidie, from The Foundations of the Cenobitic Life and the Eight Capital Sins Book X Chapters I-IV
Avicenna, On Black Bileand Melancholia, from Canon of Medicine
Hildegard of Bingen, Melancholia in Men and Women, from Holistic Healing
Ficino, Learned People and Melancholy, from The Three Books of Life
Weyer, Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons, from Of Deceiving Demons
Bright, Melancholy from Treatise of Melancholy
Burton, Melancholic States, from The Anatomy of Melancholy
Butler, A Melancholy Man, from Characters
Mather, The Cure of Melancholy, from The Angel of Bethesda
Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, from The Spleen
Boerhaave, Chronical Diseases, from Aphorisms Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases
Goethe, Werther's Death, from The Sorrows of Young Werther
Kant, Illnesses of Cognitive Faculties, from Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Pinel, Melancholia, from A Treatise on Insanity
Rush, Of the Remedies for Hypochondriasis or Tristimania, from Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind
Keats, Ode on Melancholy, Darkness Sonnet
Griesinger, States of Mental Depression, from Mental Pathology and Therapeutics
Baudelaire, Autumn Song, Spleen
Smiles, On Green Sickness and Wertherism, from Self Help
Maudsley, Ideational Insanity, from The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind
Kraepelin, Manic Depressive Insanity, from Textbook of Psychiatry
Freud, Mourning and Melancholia
Part 2: After Freud
Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States
Seligman, The Learned Helplessness Model of Depression, from Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death
Beck, The Paradoxes of Depression, from Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
Miller, Ties to Others, from Toward a New Psychology of Women
Kristeva, Psychoanalysis--A Counterdepressant, from The Black Sun: Depression and Melancholy
Goodwin and Jameson, Biomedical Models, from Manic-Depressive Illness
