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Thackeray's wife suffered from severe depression after the birth of their third child, she never recovered. He writes about her symptoms and behaviour with puzzled compassion in his letters. They are worth reading. He spent many years in search of a cure for her, before she was put into the care of a professional nurse for the rest of her life. She outlived him by many years.
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Hi Anna,
I studied this at uni http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi383/
A good reading & resource list.
Speak to Bethlem Museum & the Wellcome, and if you wanted to do any original research into asylum records this a good guide: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/asylum-inmates/
Just a heads up, I'd be careful of retrospective diagnosis. Clinical depression today might not equate to melancholia... but this is a good topic to explore to show how psychiatry & definitions have changed e.g. hysteria, puerperal madness.. etc.
Hope this helps
Liz
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Hi all
Could anybody recommend resources, articles or books that look at social stigma surrounding depression in the nineteenth century? This is for a talk on Anna Sewell, who dealt with periods of bleakness/darkness that sound very much like modern descriptions of depression. It would be great to be able to give a bit of social relevance to mental health today.
So, any tips on where to start with nineteenth century ideas about depression/melancholia would be incredibly useful.
Thank you
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