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OverviewIn Moody Minds Distempered philosopher Jennifer Radden assembles several decades of her research on melancholy and depression. The chapters are ordered into three categories: those about intellectual and medical history of melancholy and depression; those that emphasize aspects of the moral, psychological and medical features of these concepts; and finally, those that explore the sad and apprehensive mood states long associated with melancholy and depressive subjectivity. A newly written introduction maps the conceptual landscape, and draws out the analytic and thematic interconnections between the chapters. Radden emphasizes and develops several new themes: the implications, theoretical phenomenological and moral, of recognizing melancholy and depressive states as mood states; questions of method, as they affect how we understand and characterize claims about melancholy and depression; and the persistence and force of cultural tropes linking such states to brilliance, creativity, and sagacity. Insights from literature and the history of medicine, psychology, and psychiatry are woven together with those from the more recent disciplines of feminist theory and cultural studies. This is interdisciplinary writing at its best-part analytic philosophy, and part history of ideas. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer Radden (Deparment of Philosophy, Deparment of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.468kg ISBN: 9780195338287ISBN 10: 0195338286 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 22 January 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 KramerReviewsJennifer Radden has, over many years of original research, produced a series of papers that shows us what the rigorous study of melancholy should look like. By bringing together most of those papers in one volume, O.U.P. has done a great service to the multi-disciplinary readership to which Radden's work is addressed. Anthony Hatzimoysis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Jennifer Radden has, over many years of original research, produced a series of papers that shows us what the rigorous study of melancholy should look like. By bringing together most of those papers in one volume, O.U.P. has done a great service to the multi-disciplinary readership to which Radden's work is addressed. --Anthony Hatzimoysis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews <br> Jennifer Radden has, over many years of original research, produced a series of papers that shows us what the rigorous study of melancholy should look like. By bringing together most of those papers in one volume, O.U.P. has done a great service to the multi-disciplinary readership to which Radden's work is addressed. --Anthony Hatzimoysis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<br> Author InformationJennifer Radden's research is focused on philosophical issues arising out of mental health concepts and policy, and psychiatric practice. She is past president of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, and her published work includes The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva. She edited The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion (OUP 2004). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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