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Moody Minds Distempered This page intentionally left blank Moody Minds Distempered Essays on Melancholy and Depression JENNIFER RADDEN 1 2009 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2009 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Radden, Jennifer. Moody minds distempered : essays on melancholy and depression / Jennifer Radden. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-19-533828-7 1. Melancholy. 2. Depression, Mental. I. Title. [DNLM:1. Depression—Collected Works. 2. Depressive Disorder— Collected Works. 3. Affect—Collected Works. 4. Depression—history— Collected Works. 5. Depressive Disorder—history—Collected Works. 6. Philosophy, Medical—Collected Works. WM 171 R125m2009] BF575.M44R33 2009 128'.37—dc22 2008014454 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Dedicated to the memory of my father William Whayman Leavett Radden 1900 1970 – This page intentionally left blank acknowledgments Almost an adult lifetime of work is represented in these pages: there is no way I can do justice to the assistance I have received—from my own teachers, from profes- sional colleagues and friends in the United States, Europe, and Australia, and from my valued students at the University of Massachusetts. I am grateful to every one of them, aware that without their knowledge, insights, ideas, encouragement and sup- port, this book would not have been possible. More specifi cally and more recently, I thank Peter Ohlin at Oxford University Press for his astuteness over, and enthusiasm for, this project. And incisive assistance from my friends in PHAEDRA also needs to be acknowledged: Jane Roland Martin, Janet Farrell Smith, Ann Diller, Beatrice Kipp Nelson, Susan Douglas Fransoza and Barbara Houston. In addition, Joan Fordyce, Gerrit Glas, James Phillips, Alec Bodkin, Jeff Poland, Suzanne Phillips, John Sadler, Amélie Rorty, David Brendel, Rachel Cooper, Chris Megone, Stephen Wilkinson, Marlies ter Borg, Louis Charland, Peter Kramer and David Healy have all helped me better understand melancholy, depression and the category of disorder; and the ideas on emotional pain were clarifi ed by Murat Aydede and Larry Kaye. My debt to libraries and librarians is also great: in particular, I want to thank librarians at the Healey Library in Boston, the Bodleian at Oxford, and Wellcome Institute in London. The Boston Athenaeum has provided an unmatched setting for thinking and writing. The idea for this volume came while I was on sabbatical leave in 2006, and I thank the University of Massachusetts Boston for releasing me, and Oxford’s University College, Corpus Christi College and Merton College for receiving me - on the H.L.A. Hart Fellowship that allowed me to bring my plan into manageable shape. To the Warden of Merton College, Dame Jessica Rawson, and the Merton College viii Acknowledgments Fellows, I am especially grateful. Untold comforts and luxuries— intellectual, crea- ture, and social—were afforded me during that Michaelmas term as a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton. My fi nal and special acknowledgment goes to my husband Frank Keefe, who has seen me through, unwavering, during the year and a half the book has taken to ready for press. contents 3 Introduction part i History: Intellectual and Medical History of 27 Melancholy and Depression 1 . Melancholia in the Writing of a Sixteenth- 29 Century Spanish Nun 2 37 . Melancholy: History of a Concept 3 58 . Melancholy and Melancholia part ii Categories: Melancholy and Depression as 73 Medical, Psychological, and Moral Concepts 4 . Is this Dame Melancholy? Equating Today’s 75 Depression and Past Melancholia 5 94 . The Psychiatry of Cross-Cultural Suffering 6 97 . Epidemic Depression and Burtonian Melancholy
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