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The nature of melancholy : from Aristotle to Kristeva
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The nature of melancholy : from Aristotle to Kristeva

Author: Jennifer Radden
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Sources
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jennifer Radden
ISBN: 0195129628 9780195129625 0195151658 9780195151657
OCLC Number: 41612304
Description: xv, 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Aristotle (or a follower of Aristotle) --
Galen --
Cassian --
Avicenna --
Hidegard of Bingen --
Ficino --
Weyer --
Teresa of Avila --
Bright --
Burton --
Butler --
Mather --
Finch, Countess of Winchilsea --
Boerhaave --
Goethe --
Kant --
Pinel --
Rush --
Keats --
Griesinger --
Baudelaire --
Smiles --
Maudsley --
Kraepelin --
Freud --
Klein --
Seligman --
Beck --
Miller --
Kristeva --
Goodwin and Jamison.
Responsibility: edited by Jennifer Radden.
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Spanning 24 centuries, this interdisciplinary anthology collects over 30 pieces of Western writing about melancholy and related conditions. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation  Read more...

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