Melancholia before the 20th century: Fear and Sorrow or Partial Insanity?
Throughout the history of Psychopathology, several meanings have been assigned to the term melancholia. The main ones were related to affective (fear and sadness) and thought disorders (a type of mental disorder characterised mainly by the presence of abnormal believes). At the time of Hippocrates m...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-02-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00081/full |