Actual author and part explaining "Acedia the sin and its relationship to sorrow and melancholia"

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"Acedia the sin and its relationship to sorrow and melancholia"

Stanley W. Jackson pp. 43- 62 - also check out his references by the way.

In Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder

Volume 829 of Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
Volume 16 of Culture and Depression Series

Arthur Kleinman, Byron Good
Editors	Arthur Kleinman, Byron Good
Edition	reprint
Publisher	University of California Press, 1986
ISBN	0520058836, 9780520058835

SAME AUTHOR

A History of Melancholia and Depression. New Haven. Yale University press (what does "n.d." mean? not published?)

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Foucault 1965 Madness and Civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason. R. Howard, trans. NY: Pantheon 1965.

Hippocrates

Connel, M.A. A study of Accidie and soem of its Literary Phases. PhD diss. Cornell Univ. 1932

D'Isray, S. 1927 Patristiic Meidcine. Annals of Meidcal History 9: 364-378

Chaucer, Cassian, Brann's (Is acedia melancholy? and Blloomfield's the seven deadly sins

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Depression, somatization and the "New Cross-Cultural Psychiatry." Social Science and Medicine 11:3-10. (1977)

1980 Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration fo the Borderlance between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Berkely, Los Angeles, London: University of California press. A. M. Kleinman - the last two mentioned.

Kilbansky, R., E Panofsky and F Saxl. 1964 - Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in teh History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art. New York: Basic Books.

McNeill, J. T. Medicine for Sin as prescribed in the Penitentials. Church History 1:14-26. 1932.

same guy - A history of the Cure of Souls. New York: Harper and Row. 1951.

Mcneill, J.T. and H. M. Gamer

Medeival Handbooks of Penance: a translation fo the principal "Libri Poenitentiales" and selections from related documents. NEw York: Columbia Univ. Press. 1938.

Marsella, A. J. Depressive Experience and DIsorder across Cultures. In "Handbook fo Cross-Cultural Psychology. H.C. Triandio and J.G. Draguns, eds. Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1980.

(stuff by Petrarch, Ponticus - Petrarch's secret -

Radding, C.M. Evolution of MEdieval Mentalities: A Cognitive Structural Approach. American History Review 93: 577-597. 1978

Snyder, S. The Left Hand of God: Despair in Medieval and Renaissance tradition. Studies of the Renaissance 12:18-59. 1965.

Also Max Weber - protestant ethic and Wenzel's famous text.

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Melancholia and depression during the 19th century: a conceptual history

GE Berrios - Br J Psychiatry, 1988 - RCP
Melancholia before the 19th century The meaningof‘¿melancholia'
inclassical antiquity is opaque and has little in common with 20th-century
psychiatric usage (Drabkin, 1955; Heiberg, 1927). At that time, melancholia ...
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[BOOK] Melancholia and depression: From Hippocratic times to modern times

SW Jackson, 1986 - psycnet.apa.org
... Database: PsycINFO. [Book; Authored Book]. Melancholia and depression: From hippocratic
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This book—the first comprehensive history of depression in English—addresses the ways in which depression has been defined over time, the explanations proffered for its causes, and the various approaches used to treat the sufferers. Stanley W. Jackson, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and historian of medicine, here traces both the many changes and the remarkable continuity in this clinical disorder over the past 2,500 yrs. Dr. Jackson explores the terminology and some of the metaphors inherent in the language of dejected states. For each historical period, he studies the theories called upon to explain such conditions: the humoral theory of ancient, medieval, and renaissance times, the chemical schemes of the seventeenth century, the mechanical explanations of the eighteenth century, the cerebral-circulation and nerve-disorder ideas of the nineteenth century, the psychodynamic concepts and the biogenic amine hypotheses of today. And he discusses the variety of therapeutics proposed in each era: the purgatives, bloodletting, and other evacuative remedies that prevailed for so long; the theories that called upon the strengthening virtues of iron and steel, the replenishing of depleted states, and the stimulation of anergic conditions; the many psychological interventions; and the psychotherapies and antidepressants used today. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)

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From Library Journal
Although scholars may eagerly read this "first comprehensive history of depression in English," clinicians, patients, concerned relatives, and informed laypersons will probably find it jargonistic, confusing, and of little practical use. Tracing depression as a syndrome over the past 2500 years, Yale psychiatrist/psychoanalyst Jackson finds that despite a variety of causative theories, treatments, and classifications, the symptoms have a "remarkable consistency and . . . coherence." The detailed exposition includes excerpts from medical texts and the views of luminaries like Freud, Aristotle, and Samuel Johnson. Also discussed is the relationship of hypochondria, mourning, religion, love-melancholy, and nostalgia to depression. A well-indexed and well-documented reference work suitable for research collections.Janice Arenofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Amazon reader review

Jackson's text is an excellent text covering the history of melancholia and depression. It is most likely to be of interest to students of psychology and clinical social work. It traces the way our society has looked at depression and melancholia over the centuries. This is important to us because it forms part of the context in which we view depression and melancholia. Some of the metaphors we use in modern language to describe melancholia come from the concept of the four humours of ancient Greek medical thought. It goes beyond ancient history, and tracks depression through medical and literature of various periods. The coverage of Emil Kraepelin and Eugen Bleuler was excellent.

If your involvement in psychology is limited to reading "Psychology Today" magazine, this may not be for you. I find this text does not devote enough space in the discussion of 20th century theories of and treatments for depression and melancholia. I would prefer more space to a discussion of A. T. Beck and Martin E. P. Seligman's views of depression. Because I am a student of "attribution theory," I would have liked to see a fuller development of the work Seligman started and which was more fully developed by Lyn Abramson and associates. Modern psychiatry tends to view depression in terms as an imbalance of certain neurotransmitters in the brain and treats it with antidepressants including MAO inhibitors and the more modern selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil, to name a few. I would also have been happier with more full discussion of psychopharmacological intervention.

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Looking back on his confinement to Bethlem, Restoration playwright Nathaniel Lee declared: "They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me." As Roy Porter shows in Madness: A Brief History, thinking about who qualifies as insane, what causes mental illness, and how such illness should be treated has varied wildly throughout recorded history, sometimes veering dangerously close to the arbitrariness Lee describes and often encompassing cures considerably worse than the illness itself. Drawing upon eyewitness accounts of doctors, writers, artists, and the mad themselves, Roy Porter tells the story of our changing notions of insanity and of the treatments for mental illness that have been employed from antiquity to the present day. Beginning with 5,000-year-old skulls with tiny holes bored in them (to allow demons to escape), through conceptions of madness as an acute phase in the trial of souls, as an imbalance of "the humors," as the "divine fury" of creative genius, or as the malfunctioning of brain chemistry, Porter shows the many ways madness has been perceived and misperceived in every historical period. He takes us on a fascinating round of treatments, ranging from exorcism and therapeutic terror--including immersion in a tub of eels--to the first asylums, shock therapy, the birth of psychoanalysis, and the current use of psychotropic drugs. Throughout, Madness: A Brief History offers a balanced view, showing both the humane attempts to help the insane as well as the ridiculous and often cruel misunderstanding that have bedeviled our efforts to heal the mind of its myriad afflictions. ________________________________ A generously illustrated and pocket-sized distillation of the ways madness has been perceived and treated, from ancient times to the present.Highly acclaimed medical historian Porter (Social History of Medicine/Univ. College London; The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity, 1998, etc.) traces changes in attitude toward madness all the way from prehistoric beliefs in demonic possession to the contention of some modern theorists that mental illness simply does not exist. He demonstrates how beliefs in supernatural causes were challenged by Greek medicine, which developed an explanation based on the four bodily humors (blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile), and how that approach was subsequently adopted by Western medicine. With generous use of quotations, he illustrates how in the 17th century new organic theories of insanity linking mind and body began to emerge, leading to the hope that those with mental disorders could be helped through retraining of their minds. Porter examines the drive toward institutionalization, how practical psychiatry developed from the experience of asylum managers, and how disappointment with the results of benign "moral therapy" led to the growing belief that madness was probably hereditary and incurable, which in turn led to compulsory confinement, sedation, and even sterilization. He chronicles the rise and decline of psychoanalysis, both Freudian and non-Freudian, the enormous impact of psychopharmacology, and the proliferation of psychotherapies designed to treat the astonishing number of conditions labeled as mental disorders in the American Psychiatric Association's current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. For those whose appetite will have been whetted by this literate little introduction, Porter appends a well-annotated selection of readings on aspects of his subject just touched on here.A small book that raises big questions about the profession of psychiatry and the notion of scientific progress. (28 b&w illustrations, many of them etchings and engravings from the 16th to 19th centuries)