Before Depression
1660 - 1800

Publications:

THE EUROPEAN SPECTATOR

Selected papers from the conference have now been published as academic articles in two volumes of The European Spectator by the University of Montpellier (Presses universitaires de la Méditeranée, 2010) edited by Dr Clark Lawlor and Dr Valérie Maffre of the Université de Montpellier.

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MELANCHOLY EXPERIENCE IN LITERATURE OF THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: BEFORE DEPRESSION, 1660-1800


This book-length study of depressive writing and writing about depression in the long eighteenth century is edited by Allan Ingram and Stuart Sim, with chapters by Clark Lawlor, Richard Terry, John Baker, Stuart Sim, Leigh Wetherall-Dickson and Allan Ingram. Published by Palgrave (2011).

'Demonstrating what literature of the past has to teach us about our own approach to healing depression, the book as a whole will be useful to academics and non-academics interested in the heritage of depressive illnesses, to individuals suffering from depression, and to physicians and psychologists wishing to situate historically their own practices.'
Elizabeth Dolan, Review of English Studies


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FROM MELANCHOLIA TO PROZAC: A HISTORY OF DEPRESSION






This full-length study of depression through the ages, exploring its continuities and discontinuities in the understanding and misunderstanding of the condition is written by Clark Lawlor and published by Oxford University Press (2012).


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DEPRESSION AND MELANCHOLY, 1660-1800

This is a four-volume set of primary materials, much of them unpublished since the eighteenth century, covering different aspects of attitudes towards, and the experience of, depression and melancholy during the period 1660-1800. It will be published by Pickering & Chatto in the summer of 2012 under the general editorship of Leigh Wetherall-Dickson and Allan Ingram.

Volume 1: Religious Writings, edited by David Walker and Anita O'Connell

Volume 2: Medical Writings, edited by Michelle Faubert and Allan Ingram

Volume 3: Autobiographical Writings, edited by Leigh Wetherall-Dickson

Volume 4: Popular Culture, edited by Allan Ingram and Leigh Wetherall-Dickson





STUDIES IN THE LITERARY IMAGINATION

Selected lectures from the two series of public lectures, revised as scholarly articles, are being published in two special volumes of the periodical Studies in the Literary Imagination (Georgia State University) under the guest editorship of Richard Terry. They are expected to be available during 2012.

Volume 1: Creative Melancholy/Melancholy Creativity

Volume 2: Diagnosis, Treatment, Suicide

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