Melancholic Habits - Burton''s Anatomy & the Mind Sciences

Jennifer Radden finds, within Robert Burton's religious and humoral explanations in his Anatomy of Melancholy, a remarkably coherent account of normal and abnormal psychology with echoes in modern day clinical psychology.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Embodied Mentality


• Chapter 2: Imagination "Queen of the Mental Powers"


• Chapter 3: Symptom, Disease, Cause


• Chapter 4: Between the Confines of Sense and Reason


• Chapter 5: The Akratic Melancholic


• Chapter 6: When Reason Is Also Corrupted


• Chapter 7: Who Labors Not of This Disease?


• Chapter 8: Remedies


• Chapter 9: From the Anatomy to the Clinic and Lab


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Jennifer Radden is a Professor emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received degrees in philosophy and psychology and holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford. She has published extensively on mental health concepts, the history of medicine, and ethical and policy aspects of psychiatric theory and practice.

Summary

Jennifer Radden finds, within Robert Burton's religious and humoral explanations in his Anatomy of Melancholy, a remarkably coherent account of normal and abnormal psychology with echoes in modern day clinical psychology.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Radden, Jennifer (University of Massachusetts Radden
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2017
• EAN: 9780199348190
• ISBN: 978-0-19-934819-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works