Depression's Forgotten Genealogy: Notes Towards A History Of Depression  

Oleh:

Rousseau, George

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of Psychiatry vol. 11 no. 41 (Mar. 2000), page 71-106.
Fulltext: 71.pdf (2.4MB)

Isi artikel

The history of depression remains unwritten, yet historians harbour plentiful assumptions about its pre-1800 past. These views are necessarily coloured, even shaped, by modern views of depression formed after its nineteenth-century medicalization. A history of depression from ancient to modern times is an impossible task to complete successfully and would require, as a minimum, the historian’s utmost vigilance to nuance, difference, and the inclusion of nonmedical literature, especially poetry, drama and non-didactic prose. Nevertheless, five points about depression’s pre-1800 European profile can confidently be made: (1) it developed along lines of female rather than male gender; (2) was transformed in the long eighteenth century when it blended with male madness under the sway of the cults of a pan-European sensibility movement; (3) always embedded a problematic pseudo-depressive state, or feigned version, which acted to permit female escape from dire socio-economic situation; (4) included sustained chronic duration as a requirement in its theory from the Renaissance forward; (5) is richly documented in its pre-1800 versions in imaginative literature, its often overlooked genealogy.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali