TY - BOOK ID - 49130 TI - From Melancholia to Depression AU - Jansson, Åsa PY - 2021 SN - 9783030548025 DB - DOAB KW - Social History KW - History of Medicine KW - Psychiatry KW - History of Britain and Ireland KW - Mood disorders KW - Psychiatric illness KW - Physiology KW - Psychology KW - Statistical and diagnostic practices KW - Asylum records KW - Insanity KW - Madness KW - Mental pain KW - Suicidal tendencies KW - Psychological distress KW - Open Access KW - Social & cultural history KW - History of medicine KW - European history UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:49130 AB - 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? At a time when the prevalence of mood disorders and antidepressant consumption are at an all-time high, the need for a comprehensive historical understanding of how modern depressive illness came into being has never been more urgent. This book addresses a significant gap in existing scholarly literature on melancholia, depression, and mood disorders by offering a contextualised and critical perspective on the history of melancholia in the first decades of psychiatry, from the 1830s until the turn of the twentieth century. ER -