Melancholia: The Western Malady

ISBN-13: 9781107641792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 230 str.

Matthew Bell

Opis

A history of melancholy and its significance in Western history and culture.

Recenzje

'Matthew Bell has written an important depth-historical and interdisciplinary study linking melancholia and depressive disorders in the West to a distinctive culture of self-consciousness. A book like this comes once in a generation to challenge established paradigms and to engage scholars in the humanities, social sciences and psychiatry about the distinctive history and nature of melancholia as a uniquely Western malady.' Julius H. Rubin, Professor Emeritus, University of Saint Joseph and author of Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America (1994) and Tears of Repentance, Christian Indian Identity and Community in Colonial Southern New England (2013)

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Naming a disease; 2. What's wrong with me?; 3. Melancholy men, depressed women?; 4. The Western malady; 5. The telescope of truth; Conclusion.