Moody Minds Distempered Essays on Melancholy and Depression

Introduction
Section 1: HISTORY: Intellectual and medical history of melancholy and depression
1. Melancholia in the Writing of a Sixteenth Century Spanish Nun
2. Melancholy, History of a Concept
3. Melancholy and Melancholia
Section 2: CATEGORIES: Melancholy and Depression as Medical, Psychological, and Moral Concepts
4. Is this Dame Melancholy? Equating Depression and Melancholia
5. The Psychiatry of Cross Cultural Suffering
6. Epidemic Depression and Burtonian Melancholy
7. Emotional Pain and Psychiatry
8. Lumps and Bumps: Kantian Faculty Psychology, Phrenology and Twentieth Century Psychiatric Classification
9. Love and Loss in Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia": a Rereading
Section 3: SUBJECTIVITY: Melancholy as Subjective, Sad and Apprehensive Moods
10. My Symptoms, Myself: Reading Mental Illness Memoirs for Identity Assumptions
11. Melancholy, Mood and Landscape
12. Review of Against Depression by Peter Kramer

Keywords: PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body PHI015000