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Melancholia and depression : from Hippocratic times to modern times

Tracing both the many changes and the remarkable continuity in this clinical disorder over the past 2500 years, Dr. Jackson addresses the ways in which depression has been defined over time, the explanations proffered for its causes, and the various approaches used to treat sufferers

Print Book, English, ©1986
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©1986