Stories
- Article
Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
- Article
What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
- Article
Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
- Article
Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
Catalogue
- Books
Melancholia : the Western malady / Matthew Bell.
Bell, Matthew, 1964-Date: 2014- Books
Melancholia 1597 / Jacques Postel et Emmanuelle Farjon.
Postel, Jacques.Date: 1992- Books
Melancholia and partial insanity / Stanley W. Jackson.
Jackson, Stanley W., 1920-Date: 1983- Books
Melancholia : le malaise de l'individu / Jackie Pigeaud.
Pigeaud, Jackie.Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
Melancholia : essays on clinical depression / Catherine O'Sullivan.
O'Sullivan, Catherine.Date: 2005
