Moody Minds Distempered

Jennifer 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).

• 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

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.