Melancholic habits Burton's anatomy & the mind sciences /
Jennifer Radden.
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Melancholic Habits; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. embodied mentality; 2. Imagination "queen of the mental powers"; 3. symptom, disease, cause; 4. between the confines of sense and reason; 5. the akratic melancholic; 6. when Reason is also corrupted; 7. who labors not of this disease?; 8. remedies; 9. from the Anatomy to the clinic and lab; References; Index of names; Topical index Embodied mentality -- Imagination queen of the mental powers -- Symptom, disease, cause -- Between the confines of sense and reason -- The akratic melancholic -- When reason is also corrupted -- Who labors not of this disease? -- Remedies -- From the anatomy to the clinic and lab.
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.