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Melancholic habits Burton's anatomy & the mind sciences / Jennifer Radden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199348206
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF575 .M453 2016
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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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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

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.

Includes bibliographies and 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.

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