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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
  • Medical Times Gazette, "Melancholy".
  • A treatise of melancholy
  • Medical Times Gazette, "Suicidal Melancholy"
  • Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy...
  • Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy...
  • The Medical Times and Gazette, "Religious Melancholy"
  • Medical Times Gazette, "Melancholy passing into Mania"
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