Melancholic Habits
Burton's Anatomy & the Mind Sciences
Seiten
2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-934819-0 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-934819-0 (ISBN)
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.
Jennifer Radden here provides a re-interpretation of the classic text by 17th century scholar Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy. Her new reading of Burton's essential text brings several key facets of his thought to light: the role of imagination in inciting and averting melancholy as disorder; the part played by daily habits of thought in engendering severe and incurable conditions; the multi-directional feedback loops linking feeling and thought in his model of mind; and an emphasis on symptoms and natural history in his understanding of disease.
Much of Burton's account is derived from classical, medieval and renaissance writing about melancholy, yet he brought them together into something new: an account that -- while it stands in contrast to many of the assumptions of later psychology -- concurs surprisingly well with present day cognitivism. Moreover, although seventeenth century melancholy bears only a loose relationship to present day mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, on this reading the Anatomy anticipates a considerable number of findings and hypotheses associated with present day psychiatry, including its network models of depression, for example, and its emphasis on the part played by rumination and mind wandering in engendering affective disorder. Radden's new reading of a classic text should interest readers in philosophy of mind and psychiatry, clinical psychiatry and the history of medicine.
Jennifer Radden here provides a re-interpretation of the classic text by 17th century scholar Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy. Her new reading of Burton's essential text brings several key facets of his thought to light: the role of imagination in inciting and averting melancholy as disorder; the part played by daily habits of thought in engendering severe and incurable conditions; the multi-directional feedback loops linking feeling and thought in his model of mind; and an emphasis on symptoms and natural history in his understanding of disease.
Much of Burton's account is derived from classical, medieval and renaissance writing about melancholy, yet he brought them together into something new: an account that -- while it stands in contrast to many of the assumptions of later psychology -- concurs surprisingly well with present day cognitivism. Moreover, although seventeenth century melancholy bears only a loose relationship to present day mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, on this reading the Anatomy anticipates a considerable number of findings and hypotheses associated with present day psychiatry, including its network models of depression, for example, and its emphasis on the part played by rumination and mind wandering in engendering affective disorder. Radden's new reading of a classic text should interest readers in philosophy of mind and psychiatry, clinical psychiatry and the history of medicine.
Jennifer Radden is a Professor emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received degrees in philosophy and psychology and holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford. She has published extensively on mental health concepts, the history of medicine, and ethical and policy aspects of psychiatric theory and practice.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Embodied Mentality
Chapter 2: Imagination "Queen of the Mental Powers"
Chapter 3: Symptom, Disease, Cause
Chapter 4: Between the Confines of Sense and Reason
Chapter 5: The Akratic Melancholic
Chapter 6: When Reason Is Also Corrupted
Chapter 7: Who Labors Not of This Disease?
Chapter 8: Remedies
Chapter 9: From the Anatomy to the Clinic and Lab
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.12.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 213 x 142 mm |
| Gewicht | 1270 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-934819-7 / 0199348197 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-934819-0 / 9780199348190 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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