Stories
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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Diagnosing OCD in the past
Mining the writings of and about famous historical figures, retrospective psychologists try to diagnose their mental health problems. But, inevitably, partial evidence is open to misinterpretation.
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
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Phone
Is your phone a source of comfort or a gateway to melancholy during this crisis?
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"Melancholy" (only), from Lavater, Essays on physiognomy, 1789
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Melancholy and literary biography, 1640-1816 / Jane Darcy.
Darcy, JaneDate: 2013- Books
Melancholy, medicine and religion in early modern England : reading The anatomy of melancholy / Mary Ann Lund.
Lund, Mary Ann, 1978-Date: 2010- Books
Melancholy and culture : essays on the diseases of the soul in Golden Age Spain / by Roger Bartra ; translated from Spanish by Christopher Follett.
Bartra, Roger.Date: 2008- Books
Melancholy, love, and time : boundaries of the self in ancient literature / Peter Toohey.
Toohey, Peter, 1951-Date: [2004], ©2004