Melancholic Habits: Burton’s Anatomy and the Mind Sciences

New York, US: Oxford University Press USA (2016)
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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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