Melancholic Habits: Burton's Anatomy & the Mind Sciences
- ISBN-10
- 0199348219
- ISBN-13
- 9780199348213
- Category
- Melancholy
- Pages
- 325
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Author
- Jennifer Radden
Description
Jennifer Radden finds, within Robert Burton's religious and humoral explanations in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy', a remarkably coherent account of normal and abnormal psychology with echoes in modern day clinical psychology.
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- 2016-12-01
- 336 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
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