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Monday, August 3, 2009

BOOK] The sin of sloth: Acedia in medieval thought and literature
S Wenzel - 1967 - University of North Carolina PressCited by 80 - Related articles - Find in AMICUS
Acedia the sin and its relationship to sorrow and melancholia
S Jackson - Culture and depression: Studies in the anthropology and …, 1985 - books.google.com1 Acedia the Sin and Its Relationship to Sorrow and Melancholia* Stanley W. JacksonTo replace the complex acedy by sadness or sloth is to evade a difficulty. ... Cited by 16 - Related articles
Acedia: its evolution from deadly sin to psychiatric syndrome
MD ALTSCHULE - The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1965 - RCP... 3. Psjchiat. (1965), III, 117â€"119 Acedia: Its Evolution from Deadly Sin ... Most ofthese are familiar to modern readers, but one of them, acedia, is not. ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - All 2 versions
Handbook of depression and anxiety - Page 1
by Siegfried Kasper, Johan A. den Boer, J. M. A. Sitsen - Medical - 2003 - 832 pages
A Conceptual History of Anxiety and Depression GERRIT GLAS University of Leiden Leiden, The Netherlands I. INTRODUCTION For more than 2500 years, ...
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The natural history of mania, depression, and schizophrenia By George Winokur, Ming T. Tsuang
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Provides verbatim interviews w/patients during hospital admission in the 30s & 40s w/follow-up & family study.
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Melancholy and the modern consciousness of Francesco Petrarca: a close ...‎by Tania Zampini - Melancholy in literature - 254 pages
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Acedia; the major sin of Doctor Faustus‎by Richard P. Jones - Acedia - 1969 - 74 pages
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Accidie‎by Aldous Huxley - Acedia - 1958 - 4 pages
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The concept of acedia-melancholia and the life of its symbolic presentiments‎by Alina N. Feld - Acedia - 2005 - 462 pages
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The gloomy face: a sermon on the sin of accidee‎by Vincent Chesley Franks - Acedia - 1945 - 7 pages
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La saveur de Dieu: l'acédie dans le dynamisme de l'agir‎by Jean-Charles Nault - Acedia - 2006 - 558 pages
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The sin of sloth: acedia in medieval thought and literature‎by Siegfried Wenzel - History - 1967 - 269 pages
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Vorentwürfe von Moderne: antike Melancholie und die Acedia des Mittelalters‎by Michael Theunissen - Psychology - 1996 - 56 pages
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Langeweile, Überdruss und Lebenssinn: eine geistesgeschichtliche und ...‎by Alfred Bellebaum - History - 1990 - 247 pages
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L'autre mélancolie: acedia, ou les chambres de l'esprit‎by Anne Larue - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 221 pages
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La folie, un péché médiéval: la tentation de la solitude‎by Claire Jéquier - History - 2002 - 205 pages
Claire Jéquier analyse sa perception dans le texte de ce drame : le " Sponsus", dans un essai historique, musicologique et psychanalytique.
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Tristesse, acédie et médecine des âmes dans la tradition monastique et ...‎by Nathalie Nabert - Acedia - 2005 - 269 pages
Recueil d'études sur le phénomène décrit par les auteurs chrétiens comme l'acédie, qui mêle tristesse, mélancolie, dégoût, ennui, et désigne...
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Vom Interesse und dem Sinn der Langeweile‎by Verena Kast - Juvenile Fiction - 2001 - 200 pages
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Weakness of will and practical irrationality‎by Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet - Philosophy - 2003 - 317 pages
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De l'acédie monastique à l'anxio-dépression: histoire philosophique de la ...‎by Bernard Forthomme - Acedia - 2000 - 630 pages
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De l'acédie monastique à l'anxio-dépression By Bernard Forthomme
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Après avoir décrit les enjeux philosophiques, théologiques et spirituels de la question de l'acédie, l'ouvrage aborde la décisive inflexion de l'acédie dans le champ de la médecine aliéniste française du XIXe siècle, ainsi que le rôle qui lui est donné dans la psychopathologie américaine et européenne. Cette étude tend à renouveler l'approche de l'anxiété et de la dépression.
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Handbook of depression and anxiety By Siegfried Kasper, Johan A. den Boer, J. M. A. Sitsen

The History of depression By Aaron T. Beck, John Paul Brady, Jacques M. Quen


Anxiety disorders: pathophysiology and pharmacological treatment‎by Gérard Emilien, Cecile Durlach, Ulla LepolaLimited preview - 2002

Anxiety disorders‎by David J. Nutt, James C. BallengerLimited preview - 2003
SSRIs in depression and anxiety‎by Stuart A Montgomery, Joan A. Den BoerLimited preview - 2001Anxiety disorders: pathophysiology and pharmacological treatment‎by Gérard Emilien, Cecile Durlach, Ulla LepolaLimited preview - 2002


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Vice, maladie de l'âme et du corps, de nature mélancolique, simple défaillance humaine, état de crise ou usure lancinante, l'acédie est un concept et une réalité de la vie monastique polysémique isotopant et axiologique, tant il génère de sens, induit un vocabulaire touffu et se comprend comme un malheur de tout l'être minant la paix du cloître et de la cellule. Insaisissable, l'akèdia définie pour la première fois par Evagre le Pontique (IVe siècle) comme " le démon de la méridiène ", " le démon de midi " de l'anachorète, échappe à la glose de la plupart des dictionnaires et des commentateurs qui l'ignorent bien souvent sous cette forme lexicale pour lui préférer les termes plus appropriés de " manque d'ardeur, dégoût, ennui, tiédeur, torpeur, paresse, mélancolie " ou lui associer des co-occurrents qui viennent en revitaliser le sens, tel Cassien (IVe-Ve siècle) qui fait de l'acédie le sixième vice de son octonaire, emprunté à Evagre le Pontique, précédé par la tristesse. Ce dernier terme auquel on relie souvent l'acédie pour éclairer son sens demeuré énigmatique, quand on ne réduit pas purement et simplement son contenu à la tristesse, comme le fera Grégoire le Grand (VIe-VIIe siècle), indique que sur l'échelle de la perfection monastique, où se gravissent pas à pas les degrés des vertus, l'acédie surgit comme une atteinte à la fidélité à la vocation et à la ferveur de la prière qui a pour conséquence la distraction de l'esprit, la morosité et le désir de fuir le cloître, la cellule. Tels sont les symptômes et les manifestations de l'acédie que nous analyserons au cours de ce colloque ainsi que les remèdes appropriés qui lui ont été appliqués, à travers la tradition des Pères du désert et le propositum érémitique de l'Ordre des chartreux.
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