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From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry - Mental Health in Historical Perspective Asa Jansson 1st ed. 2021 edition
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry - Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Asa 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 illness in the twentieth century?
234 pages, XV, 234 p.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 22, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9783030548018 |
| Publishers | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Pages | 234 |
| Dimensions | 219 × 156 × 20 mm · 464 g |
| Language | German |