From Melancholia to Depression : : Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry.

• Superior document: Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series
• Author: Jansson, Åsa.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• 1 Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem
• A Note on Language
• Melancholy and Melancholia Before the Nineteenth Century
• The Changing Face of Melancholia
• Melancholia and the History of Psychiatry
• Structure of the Book
• 2 The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood
• Reflex Action, Automatism, and Emotion in Medical Science
• The Reflex Concept
• Irritation and Morbid Sensibility: From Internal to Psychological Medicine
• From Sensory-Motor Reflex to Psychological Automatism
• The Physiology of Disordered Emotion in Mid-Century British Medicine
• William Benjamin Carpenter
• Thomas Laycock
• Morbid Sensibility and Morbid Introspection
• Conclusion
• 3 The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine
• Melancholia, Monomania and Moral Insanity
• 'Depression' as a Symptom of Melancholia
• From Conolly to Sankey: Remaking Melancholia
• Conclusion
• 4 Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry
• Wilhelm Griesinger: From Cerebral Irritation to Mental Depression
• 'Pain Is Awakened by the Slightest Impression': Griesinger's Melancholia
• Henry Maudsley: Disordered Emotion in an Evolutionary Context
• Towards a Nosological Reification of Melancholia
• Melancholia on the Continent: Folie Circulaire and Psychische Neuralgie
• Mood Disorder or Nervous Exhaustion? Melancholia and Neurasthenia
• Melancholia Across the Atlantic
• Conclusion
• 5 Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia
• The Problem of Diagnosis in Psychological Medicine
• Classification and Medical Statistics
• Asylum Statistics and the Standardisation of Recording Practices
• Melancholia and Suicidal Tendencies
• The Historical Roots of 'Mental Pain'
• 'Religious Delusions' and 'The Unpardonable Sin'.
• Nosological Shifts: Maudsley Revisited
• Towards a Standardised Diagnosis
• Obscuring the Boundary between Normal and Pathological Emotions
• Conclusion
• 6 Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum
• A Note on Asylum Records
• Thomas Clouston and the Modernisation of Morningside
• A 'Typical' Case of Melancholia
• Typical and Untypical Cases: Melancholia from the Textbook to the Asylum Ward
• Suicidal Melancholics
• Conclusion
• 7 Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification
• Alternative Models of Melancholia
• From Melancholia to Depression
• The Politics of Pathological Emotionality
• Conclusion
• Index.