| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 325 pages .) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640. Anatomy of melancholy.
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Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
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| SUBJECT |
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 Anatomy of melancholy. Selections |
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Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 fast |
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Anatomy of melancholy (Burton, Robert) fast |
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Melancholy.
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Psychology.
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
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Depressive Disorder -- history
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Depressive Disorder
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Medicine in Literature
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History, 17th Century
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Psychology
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melancholy.
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psychology.
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Medicine in literature
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Medicine
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Melancholy
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Psychology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016011949 |
| ISBN |
9780199348213 |
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0199348219 |
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0199348200 |
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9780199348206 |
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9780190651503 |
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0190651504 |
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