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The nature of melancholy : from Aristotle to Kristeva / edited by Jennifer Radden.

Contributor(s): Radden, Jennifer
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195151658 (pbk.); 0195129628 (alk. paper)Subject(s): MelancholyDDC classification: 152.4 LOC classification: BF575.M44 | N38 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Brilliance and melancholy / Aristotle (or a follower of Aristotle) -- Diseases of the black bile / Galen -- Accidie / Cassian -- Black bile and melancholia / Hildegard of Bingen -- Learned people and melancholy / Ficino -- Melancholia, witches, and deceiving demons / Weyer -- Melancholy nuns / Teresa of Avila -- Melancholy / Bright -- Melancholic states / Burton -- The melancholy character / Butler -- How to help melancholicks / Mather -- The spleen / Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- The chronic disease of melancholy / Boerhaave -- Werther's death / Goethe -- Illness of the cognitive faculties / Kant -- Melancholia / Pinel -- Hypochondriasis or tristimania / Rush -- "Ode on melancholy" and "What the thrush said" / Keats -- Hypochondriasis and melancholia / Griesinger -- "Autumn song" and "Spleen" / Baudelaire -- Green sickness and Wertherism / Smiles -- Affectivity in mental disorder / Maudsley -- Depressive states / Kraepelin -- Loss / Freud -- The depressive position / Klein -- A learned helplessness model of depression / Seligman -- A cognitivist analysis of depression / Beck -- Affiliation, cultural roles, and women's depression / Miller -- Mourning the lost mother and the lost self / Kristeva -- Biomedical analyses of depression / Goodwin and Jamison.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BF575 .M44 N38 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902212352

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brilliance and melancholy / Aristotle (or a follower of Aristotle) -- Diseases of the black bile / Galen -- Accidie / Cassian -- Black bile and melancholia / Hildegard of Bingen -- Learned people and melancholy / Ficino -- Melancholia, witches, and deceiving demons / Weyer -- Melancholy nuns / Teresa of Avila -- Melancholy / Bright -- Melancholic states / Burton -- The melancholy character / Butler -- How to help melancholicks / Mather -- The spleen / Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- The chronic disease of melancholy / Boerhaave -- Werther's death / Goethe -- Illness of the cognitive faculties / Kant -- Melancholia / Pinel -- Hypochondriasis or tristimania / Rush -- "Ode on melancholy" and "What the thrush said" / Keats -- Hypochondriasis and melancholia / Griesinger -- "Autumn song" and "Spleen" / Baudelaire -- Green sickness and Wertherism / Smiles -- Affectivity in mental disorder / Maudsley -- Depressive states / Kraepelin -- Loss / Freud -- The depressive position / Klein -- A learned helplessness model of depression / Seligman -- A cognitivist analysis of depression / Beck -- Affiliation, cultural roles, and women's depression / Miller -- Mourning the lost mother and the lost self / Kristeva -- Biomedical analyses of depression / Goodwin and Jamison.

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