Cover of Melancholic Habits

Book 2016

Melancholic Habits

1 readers

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
2016
  • Melancholy
  • Psychology
  • Depressive Disorder
  • History
  • Medicine in Literature
  • History, 17th Century

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.