Melancholy and the care of the soul

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"Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion. This book considerably furthers our understanding of the issue by examining the extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious and moral philosophical publications, many of which have received only scant attention from modern scholars."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Christianity,  Depression, Mental,  History,  Melancholy,  Mental Depression,  Religious aspects,  Religious aspects of Melancholy,  Religious aspects of Mental depression,  Spiritual healing,  Therapie,  Psychology,  Melancholie,  Religion and Psychology,  Mood Disorders,  Religion,  Depressies (psychiatrie),  Seelsorge,  Affective Symptoms,  Melankoli,  Therapy,  Philosophie,  Pastoraat,  Mélancolie,  Histoire,  Dépression,  Guérison par la foi,  Physiological Psychology,  Mental Health,  Religious Philosophies,  Spiritual Therapies,  Depressive Disorder,  Depression

Places: England