Melancholy as an Alternative to the Psychological Label of Depression
This essay questions the adequacy of theories of depression by challenging their reliance on a homeostatic model of mental health that labels all experiences of incongruity as negative. The concept of melancholy is offered as an alternative to understanding and evaluating experiential incongruity; i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[1992]
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 1992, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 71-85 |
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| Summary: | This essay questions the adequacy of theories of depression by challenging their reliance on a homeostatic model of mental health that labels all experiences of incongruity as negative. The concept of melancholy is offered as an alternative to understanding and evaluating experiential incongruity; it is a concept extracted and developed from the literature on religious studies in general and from the Hasidic stories of Elie Wiesel in particular. |
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| ISSN: | 1532-7582 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Melancholy or Depression, Sacred or Secular? (1992)"
Kritik in "Melancholy, Depression, and Judaism (1992)" Kritik in "There's More to Depression Than Melancholy (1992)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1207/s15327582ijpr0202_1 |