Jennifer Radden

Melancholic Habits

Burton's Anatomy & the Mind Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 142mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9780199348190
• ISBN-10: 0199348197
• Artikelnr.: 47867695

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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