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Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 by Leigh Wetherall Dickson

Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800

Leigh Wetherall Dickson

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As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: 'melancholy' carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This...

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