From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry (Hardcover - 2020)

About the Book
1. Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem2. The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood 3. The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine4. Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry 5. Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia6. Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum7. Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification