Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem

The introduction situates the narrative of this book—the reconceptualisation of melancholia in nineteenth-century psychiatry—firstly in the context of current attempts to ‘resurrect’ melancholia as a psychiatric diagnosis, secondly in relation to the hist

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From Melancholia to Depression Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry Åsa Jansson

Mental Health in Historical Perspective

Series Editors Catharine Coleborne School of Humanities and Social Science University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia Matthew Smith Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK

Covering all historical periods and geographical contexts, the series explores how mental illness has been understood, experienced, diagnosed, treated and contested. It will publish works that engage actively with contemporary debates related to mental health and, as such, will be of interest not only to historians, but also mental health professionals, patients and policy makers. With its focus on mental health, rather than just psychiatry, the series will endeavour to provide more patient-centred histories. Although this has long been an aim of health historians, it has not been realised, and this series aims to change that. The scope of the series is kept as broad as possible to attract good quality proposals about all aspects of the history of mental health from all periods. The series emphasises interdisciplinary approaches to the field of study, and encourages short titles, longer works, collections, and titles which stretch the boundaries of academic publishing in new ways.

More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14806

Åsa Jansson

From Melancholia to Depression Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

Åsa Jansson Institute for Medical Humanities Durham University Durham, UK

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