Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem -- A Note on Language -- Melancholy and Melancholia Before the Nineteenth Century -- The Changing Face of Melancholia -- Melancholia and the History of Psychiatry -- Structure of the Book -- 2 The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood -- Reflex Action, Automatism, and Emotion in Medical Science -- The Reflex Concept -- Irritation and Morbid Sensibility: From Internal to Psychological Medicine -- From Sensory-Motor Reflex to Psychological Automatism -- The Physiology of Disordered Emotion in Mid-Century British Medicine -- William Benjamin Carpenter -- Thomas Laycock -- Morbid Sensibility and Morbid Introspection -- Conclusion -- 3 The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine -- Melancholia, Monomania and Moral Insanity -- 'Depression' as a Symptom of Melancholia -- From Conolly to Sankey: Remaking Melancholia -- Conclusion -- 4 Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry -- Wilhelm Griesinger: From Cerebral Irritation to Mental Depression -- 'Pain Is Awakened by the Slightest Impression': Griesinger's Melancholia -- Henry Maudsley: Disordered Emotion in an Evolutionary Context -- Towards a Nosological Reification of Melancholia -- Melancholia on the Continent: Folie Circulaire and Psychische Neuralgie -- Mood Disorder or Nervous Exhaustion? Melancholia and Neurasthenia -- Melancholia Across the Atlantic -- Conclusion -- 5 Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia -- The Problem of Diagnosis in Psychological Medicine -- Classification and Medical Statistics -- Asylum Statistics and the Standardisation of Recording Practices -- Melancholia and Suicidal Tendencies -- The Historical Roots of 'Mental Pain' -- 'Religious Delusions' and 'The Unpardonable Sin'.

Nosological Shifts: Maudsley Revisited -- Towards a Standardised Diagnosis -- Obscuring the Boundary between Normal and Pathological Emotions -- Conclusion -- 6 Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum -- A Note on Asylum Records -- Thomas Clouston and the Modernisation of Morningside -- A 'Typical' Case of Melancholia -- Typical and Untypical Cases: Melancholia from the Textbook to the Asylum Ward -- Suicidal Melancholics -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification -- Alternative Models of Melancholia -- From Melancholia to Depression -- The Politics of Pathological Emotionality -- Conclusion -- Index.

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