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Zusatztext the incorporation of a large variety of ideas and models of melancholy into one easily readable (and affordable) overview makes this a useful starting point for student discussion! or for those with no particular background in the history of psychiatry. Informationen zum Autor Clark Lawlor is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University, and is especially interested in the cultural history of disease. He has been publishing work on the history and representation of depression recently, partly as a result of his co-Directorship of Before Depression, a Leverhulme Trust-funded project on the nature of depression in the eighteenth century. Before his interest in depression he published Consumption and Literature: TheMaking of the Romantic Disease (2006), which describes how consumption (tuberculosis) came to be such a glamorous disease by the nineteenth century. Klappentext Exactly what is depression? Do we under- or over-diagnose it? Do treatments on offer really work? Clark Lawlor sheds light on the current debates by looking back at how depression has been described, understood, and dealt with in other cultures and throughout history. Zusammenfassung Exactly what is depression? Do we under- or over-diagnose it? Do treatments on offer really work? Clark Lawlor sheds light on the current debates by looking back at how depression has been described, understood, and dealt with in other cultures and throughout history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784); 1 'Poor Wretch'; 2 Genius and Despair; 3 From Spleen to Sensibility; 4 Victorians! Melancholia! and Neurasthenia; 5 Modernism! Melancholia! and Depression; 6 The New Depression; 7 'The Drugs Don't Work'? The Future for Depression and Melancholia
