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- The name "melancholia" comes from the old medical belief of the four humours: disease or ailment being caused by an imbalance in one or more of the four basic bodily liquids, or humours. Personality types were similarly determined by the dominant humor in a particular person.
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‘A very short history of melancholia’ highlights the descriptions of melancholia and theories about its causes that held sway from ancient times until about the 19th century. It begins with Hippocrates’ black bile theory in the 4th century bc.
Melancholia or melancholy (from Greek: µέλαινα χολή melaina chole, [1] meaning black bile) [2] is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions.
In his 1917 essay “Mourning and Melancholy”, Freud recognizes two mutually exclusive responses to loss — mourning [Trauer] and melancholia [Melancholie]. This sharp distinction between the two responses has long since become almost synonymous with the understanding of a normal versus a pathological reaction to loss, and the clear ...
- Ilit Ferber
- 2006
Dec 6, 2022 · Less well known is that a leading theory of depression in the middle third of the 19th century postulated that mental pain, or psychalgia, was foundational to the clinical syndrome then called...
Freud understood melancholia as a special type of mourning for a relationship that has been damaged or destroyed, when the mourner identifies with the formerly loved object instead of giving them up, and becomes highly self-critical in consequence.
Jul 24, 2008 · In his famous paper 'Mourning and melancholia', Freud carried out an elegant application of psychoanalytic theory to the illness of depression. It is the task of this paper to parallel the psychological processes described by Freud with the physiological processes identified by modern clinical research in order to furnish a more comprehensive ...
Aug 14, 2009 · Melancholia is the classic depressive mood disorder. Psychotic depression, manic-depressive depression, puerperal depressions, and abnormal bereavement are part of the melancholia picture. Diverse disease processes, such as endocrinopathies and seizure disorder, induce it.
