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Parker, G., D. Hadzi-Pavlovic, I. Hickie, et al. "Sub-typing depression, III. Development of a clinical algorithm for melancholia and comparison with other diagnostic measures." Psychological Medicine 25, no. 4 (1995): 833–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003329170003508x.

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SYNOPSISWe describe the development of a clinical algorithm to differentiate melancholic from non-melancholic depression, using refined sets of ‘endogeneity’ symptoms together with clinician-rated CORE scores assessing psychomotor disturbance. Assignment by the empirically developed algorithm is contrasted with assignment by DSM-III-R and with several other melancholia subtyping indices. Both the numbers of ‘melancholies’ assigned by the several systems and their capacity to distinguish ‘melancholics’ on clinical, demographic and a biological index test (the DST) varied across the systems with

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PARKER, G., K. ROY, D. HADZI-PAVLOVIC, K. WILHELM, and P. MITCHELL. "The differential impact of age on the phenomenology of melancholia." Psychological Medicine 31, no. 7 (2001): 1231–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291701004603.

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Background. We pursue an observation that age may influence the clinical features of melancholia and, in particular, psychomotor disturbance.Methods. Two large clinical databases were amalgamated allowing the clinical features of 124 depressed subjects meeting DSM-III-R and clinical criteria for melancholia to be contrasted with 218 subjects diagnosed as having a non-melancholic depression by both criteria sets. Psychomotor disturbance was assessed by the CORE measure and by seven classical endogeneity symptoms of melancholia which, when summed, created a ENDOG score.Results. There was no impa

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Wolińska, Anna. "Krajobraz i melancholia." Polish Journal of Landscape Studies 5, no. 8 (2024): 29–44. https://doi.org/10.14746/pls.2024.5.2.

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Przedmiotem analiz są różnorodne związki jakie zachodzą pomiędzy krajobrazem a melancholią. Kluczowa, z perspektywy podjętej w tekście, jest zmiana polegająca na odejściu od alegorycznych przedstawień melancholii operujących kategorią krajobrazu w sposób instrumentalny na rzecz odczucia melancholii. Zmian ta spowodowała, że melancholia mocniej związana została z doświadczeniem krajobrazu. W tekście wskazuję również na bliski związek z pokrewnym melancholii, doświadczeniem nostalgii, związanym bezpośrednio nie tyle z przemijalnością co odczuciem utraty i niemożliwością odzyskania tego, co utrac

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Cezary, Wąs. "Treści ideowe przedstawień melancholii w sztuce." Format. Pismo Artystyczne 87 (November 21, 2021): 10–12. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5717071.

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W dziejach sztuki melancholia przeszła długą drogę od bycia nazwą chorej duszy pojedynczego człowieka, przez uczynienie jej obrazowania zapisem reakcji na rozpad metafizycznych podstaw świata, aż do odszukania jej źródła w zbrodniach ludzkości na samej sobie i przeczuciu apokaliptycznej katastrofy. W miedziorycie przedstawienie melancholii Dürera obrazowało rozterki artysty, który zwątpił skuteczność swojej sztuki, nawet gdy wspierana jest geometrią czy alchemią. W akwaforcie Salvatora Rosy wizerunek pogrążenia się w beznadziejnym smutku jest tożsamy ze stanem ducha obserwat

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Sobczyk, Agata. "Deuil et mélancolie de Narcisse : Le joli buisson de jeunesse de Jean Froissart (1373)." Studia Litteraria 17, no. 1 (2022): 37–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843933st.22.005.15305.

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Żałoba i melancholia Narcyza: Le joli buisson de jeunesse Jeana Froissarta (1373) Narcyz ukazuje się jako figura przepojona melancholią zarówno w Metamorfozach Owidiusza, jak i w poezji XVI i XVII wieku. W średniowieczu można dostrzec związek tej postaci z melancholią w różnych jej przedstawieniach. Ale Narcyz, który wydaje się najbardziej melancholijny, to ten, którego Jean Froissart przedstawia w Joli buisson de jeunesse, głęboko modyfikując mit Owidiusza. Badacze uważają, że reprezentuje on tu archetyp kochanka. Autorka artykułu sugeruje jednak, że Froissart wykracza poza sferę miłości i te

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Rasmussen, Keith G., Susanna R. Stevens, Simon Kung, and Amit Mohan. "Melancholic symptoms as assessed by the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and outcomes with and without electroconvulsive therapy on an in-patient mood disorders unit." Acta Neuropsychiatrica 22, no. 1 (2010): 21–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-5215.2009.00425.x.

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Rasmussen KG, Stevens SR, Kung S, Mohan A. Melancholic symptoms as assessed by the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and outcomes with and without electroconvulsive therapy on an in-patient mood disorders unit.Background:We investigated whether 24-item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HamD24)-based melancholia ratings correlated with treatment outcome, with special focus on whether electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was used in depressed patients treated on an in-patient mood disorders unit.Methods:We analysed the data on ECT- versus non-ECT-treated patients' outcomes relative to melancholia

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Seiler, Thomas. "Ting, minne og identitet hos Inghill Johansen II." Studia Scandinavica, no. 7(27) (December 15, 2023): 48–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/ss.2023.27.04.

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In the second part of my article on Inghill Johansen’s short prose, the focus is on the conception of body memory. Past and present are merged in the body, and hence the narrator’s melancholy, if we follow Sigmund Freud’s conception of melancholy in his famous “Mourning and Melancholia” from 1917. According to Freud, a melancholiac is a person who identifies with the object he or she has lost. Furthermore, as Johansen’s narrator compares her life and writing with a black hole, she can be interpreted as a melancholiac who uses the black hole metaphor to formulate a poetology. The last part of t

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Quinn, Candice, Anthony Harris, and Andrew Kemp. "The Interdependence of Subtype and Severity: Contributions of Clinical and Neuropsychological Features to Melancholia and Non-melancholia in an Outpatient Sample." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 18, no. 2 (2012): 361–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617711001858.

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AbstractMajor depressive disorder is often considered to be a homogenous disorder that changes in terms of severity; however, the presence of distinct subtypes and a variety of presenting symptoms suggests much heterogeneity. Aiming to better understand the relationship between heterogeneity and diagnosis we used an exploratory approach to identify subtypes of depression on the basis of clinical symptoms and neuropsychological performance. Cluster analysis identified two groups of patients distinguished by level of cognitive dysfunction with the more severe cluster being associated with melanc

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Snochowska-Gonzalez, Claudia. "Od melancholii do rozpaczy. O prozie Andrzeja Stasiuka." Studia Litteraria et Historica, no. 2 (June 30, 2014): 298–330. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/slh.2013.013.

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From melancholy to despair. About Andrzej Stasiuk’s prose worksIn Moja Europa, Jadąc do Babadag and Fado Andrzej Stasiuk describes his travelling to the countries of the East-Central Europe: its diminished, forgotten part, lying on the margins of History and Progress. It is a land of melancholy, of the eternal emptiness and lack. To praise it means to give an ironic response to the enthusiasm of a “return to the West”, to the attempts to meet East-European stigma and to the West’s fear of East-European ferocity. What is the source of this melancholy? Stasiuk refers to Cioran, his philosophy of

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Parker, Gordon. "Pseudo-melancholia." Australasian Psychiatry 28, no. 3 (2020): 339–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856220908167.

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Objective: An incorrect false positive diagnosis of melancholia can lead to inappropriate treatment and illness prolongation. This paper therefore seeks to introduce the concept of ‘pseudo-melancholia’ to capture such instances and provide clinical examples of contributing at-risk scenarios. Methods: The author draws on clinical experience to provide exemplars of circumstances most risking a false positive diagnosis of melancholia. Results: Pseudo-melancholia can result from invalid measures of melancholia and from several functional and organic conditions presenting with suggested melancholic

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Amsterdam, Jay D. "Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor efficacy in severe and melancholic depression." Journal of Psychopharmacology 12, no. 4_suppl (1998): S99—S111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269881198012003061.

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Depression with melancholic features appears to be a discrete affective syndrome characterised by profound psychomotor, cognitive and mood disturbances that are qualitatively different from other forms of depression. Some investigators have hypothesised that melancholia may have a neurological basis with psychomotor disturbances associated with selective alterations in dopamine neurotransmission and disturbances in basal ganglia function. A number of studies have examined the role of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in the treatment of melancholia. Although relatively few prospe

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Toth, Roland, and Tobias Dienlin. "Bittersweet Symphony: Nostalgia and Melancholia in Music Reception." Music & Science 6 (January 2023): 205920432311556. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20592043231155640.

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Listening to music can cause experiences of nostalgia and melancholia. Although both concepts are theoretically related, to date they have not been analyzed together regarding their emotional and cognitive profiles. In this study, we identify their theoretical underpinnings and determine how they can be measured empirically. We analyze how listening to music causes nostalgia and melancholia, and whether both experiences are related to different behavioral intentions. To this end, we conducted an online experiment with 359 participants who listened to music they considered either nostalgic, mel

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Betz, Emily. "A Sixteenth-Century Clergyman and Physician: Timothy Bright's Dual Approach to Melancholia." Studies in Church History 58 (June 2022): 112–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2022.6.

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This article explores the nexus of healing between clergy and physicians in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century medicine by focusing on the disease of melancholia, and in particular on the earliest extant English monograph on that subject, A Treatise of Melancholie (1586), by Timothy Bright. Melancholia was a disease especially apt to be treated by both medical practitioners and the clergy as it was widely defined as both corporal and spiritual in origin. What makes Bright's treatise particularly noteworthy is the vocation of the author: Bright was both doctor and cleric, and his wor

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Kent, Sarah. "Affective Alienation: Diasporic Melancholia in Warsan Shire's "Home"." Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies (ISSN 2455 6564) Vol. I, Issue 1 (January 31, 2016): 177–93. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1313128.

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In violent and visceral imagery, Warsan Shire’s poem, “Home,” documents the diasporic melancholia at the heart of losing a space and place of home. In conversation with Sara Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness and Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” my paper examines the melancholic orientation of home as a radical political tool for unearthing the concealment of colonial histories. As Freud’s seminal text argues, mourning lapses into an unhealthy state of melancholia when the subject holds on to the object of loss. For the melancholy migran

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Davidson, Jonathan, and Craig D. Turnbull. "Diagnostic Significance of Vegetative Symptoms in Depression." British Journal of Psychiatry 148, no. 4 (1986): 442–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.148.4.442.

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The diagnostic importance of vegetative symptoms for melancholia was examined through DSM-III, the Newcastle Scale, and Extracted Criteria for melancholia. Statistically significant differences were diagnostically unimpressive in the case of DSM-III and the Newcastle criteria. With the Extracted Criteria, initial insomnia, early waking, anorexia, weight loss, loss of libido, and worsened mood in the morning were all significantly more common in melancholia than in non-melancholic depression, while increased appetite was more common in non-melancholia. Only diurnal variation of mood (worse in t

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Maes, M., M. Claes, M. Vandewoude та ін. "Adrenocorticotropin hormone, β-endorphin and cortisol responses to oCRF in melancholic patients". Psychological Medicine 22, № 2 (1992): 317–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700030269.

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SYNOPSISSeveral authors have reported attenuated adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) responses to corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) administration in melancholic patients as compared with healthy controls. In order to explore the integrity of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA)-axis in melancholics, we examined the following parameters in 98 subjects: the ACTH; β-endorphin; and cortisol responses to ovine CRF (oCRF) (100 μg/i.v.); and the postdexamethasone cortisol values. We found significant lower CRF-induced ACTH responses in melancholic patients as opposed to healthy controls and mi

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Parker, G., D. Hadzi-Pavlovic, M. P. Austin, et al. "Sub-typing depression, I. Is psychomotor disturbance necessary and sufficient to the definition of melancholia?" Psychological Medicine 25, no. 4 (1995): 815–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700035066.

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SYNOPSISMelancholia is most commonly distinguished from non-melancholic depression by the presence of psychomotor disturbance (PMD) and a set of ‘endogeneity’ symptoms. We examine the capacity of an operationalized clinician-rated measure of PMD (the CORE system) to predict diagnostic assignment to ‘melancholic/endogenous’ classes by the DSM-III-R and Newcastle systems. Examining a pre-established CORE cut-off score (≥ 8) against independent diagnostic assignment, PMD was present in 51% of those assigned as melancholic by DSM-III-R, and 85% of those assigned as endogenous by the Newcastle syst

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Marczuk, Barbara. "Morbus melancholicus : aperçu préliminaire (Pseudo-Aristote, Marsile Ficin, André Du Laurens)." Studia Litteraria 17, no. 1 (2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843933st.22.002.15302.

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Morbus melancholicus: uwagi wstępne (Pseudo-Arystoteles, Marsilio Ficino, AndréDu Laurens) Od czasów Hipokratesa aż do XVIII wieku lekarze uważali melancholię za przewlekłą chorobę spowodowaną nadmiarem czarnej żółci (atra bilis), mitycznego „humoru”, którego istnienie obaliła medycyna naukowa. Artykuł opisuje etiologię, nozografię i terapię tej choroby przedstawione w traktacie André Du Laurensa Second discours auquel est traicté des maladies melancoliques et des moyens de les guerir (1597), a także koncepcje Marsilia Ficina wyrażone w De vita triplici (1489). Odwołując się do idei zawartych

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PARKER, G., J. ROUSSOS, K. EYERS, K. WILHELM, P. MITCHELL, and D. HADZI-PAVLOVIC. "How distinct is ‘distinct quality’ of mood?" Psychological Medicine 27, no. 2 (1997): 445–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291796004527.

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Background. The DSM-IV criteria for melancholia include the clinical feature ‘distinct quality’, defined as a mood state differing from that experienced in bereavement. Both propositions – its specificity to melancholia and its definition – remain problematical.Methods. We examine both propositions by analysing an adjective checklist completed by melancholic and non-melancholic depressed subjects, as well as by a bereaved sample. The checklist was refined by a principal components analysis to four scales – one assessing a general ‘mood’ severity or dysphoric dimension, and the other three asse

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Guo, C. C., M. P. Hyett, V. T. Nguyen, G. B. Parker, and M. J. Breakspear. "Distinct neurobiological signatures of brain connectivity in depression subtypes during natural viewing of emotionally salient films." Psychological Medicine 46, no. 7 (2016): 1535–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291716000179.

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BackgroundEstablishing an evidence-based diagnostic system informed by the biological (dys)function of the nervous system is a major priority in psychiatry. This objective, however, is often challenged by difficulties in identifying homogeneous clinical populations. Melancholia, a biological and endogenous subtype for major depressive disorder, presents a canonical test case in the search of biological nosology.MethodWe employed a unique combination of naturalistic functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigms – resting state and free viewing of emotionally salient films – to search f

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Brandao, Guilherme Sundré, Davi Dias Souza, Eduarda Gomes Abrantes, Felipe Martins Cotta Seleguine, Juliana Gomes Lana, and Ricardo Oliveira Vizani. "MELANCHOLIA IN PSYCHIATRY: BETWEEN VICTORIAN ROMANTICISM AND MODERN NEUROSCIENCE." REVISTA FOCO 18, no. 2 (2025): e7701. https://doi.org/10.54751/revistafoco.v18n2-052.

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Since ancient times, melancholia has intrigued and challenged scholars, bridging the realms of medicine, philosophy, and art. Hippocrates first conceptualized melancholia as an imbalance of humors, establishing a foundation for its later identification as a profound psychic condition. By the Victorian era, figures like Falret and Freud further dissected melancholia, associating it with psychomotor retardation, anhedonia, and existential despair. Freud’s psychoanalytic framework redefined melancholia as a pathological form of mourning, emphasizing the internalization of loss and the weakening o

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Wolfson, Elliot R. "Melancholic Redemption and the Hopelessness of Hope." Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 30, no. 1 (2022): 130–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1477285x-12341330.

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Abstract Since late antiquity, a connection was made between Jews and the psychological state of despondency based, in part, on the link between melancholy and Saturn, and the further association of the Hebrew name of that planet, Shabbetai, and the Sabbath. The melancholic predisposition has had important anthropological, cosmological, and theological repercussions. In this essay, I focus on various perspectives on melancholia in thinkers as diverse as Kafka, Levinas, Blanchot, Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Bloch, Scholem, and Derrida. A common thread that links these thinkers is the hopelessness of

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Prades, Vilar Mario. "Los síntomas melancólicos del filósofo en las 'Intercenales' (1424-1439) de Leon Battista Alberti." Revista Médica de Chile 147, no. 8 (2019): 1053–58. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14651509.

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This essay analyzes the presence of the modern concept of melancholy in the Intercenales (1424-1439) by the humanist Leon Battista Alberti. The Intercenales is a collection of satirical, allegorical and moralizing writings composed with the purpose of entertaining an audience of close friends. In spite of the fact that the term "melancholia" does not appear in the text, this paper argues that Alberti's character of “the philosopher” is melancholic, since he is "ill in the soul" (suffering from morbus animi), and his illness is evidenced by a series of physical and psychological sym

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Parker, G., K. Fletcher, M. Hyett, D. Hadzi-Pavlovic, M. Barrett, and H. Synnott. "Measuring melancholia: the utility of a prototypic symptom approach." Psychological Medicine 39, no. 6 (2008): 989–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291708004339.

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BackgroundMelancholia has long resisted classification, with many of its suggested markers lacking specificity. The imprecision of depressive symptoms, in addition to self-report biases, has limited the capacity of existing measures to delineate melancholic depression as a distinct subtype. Our aim was to develop a self-report measure differentiating melancholic and non-melancholic depression, weighting differentiation by prototypic symptoms and determining its comparative classification success with a severity-based strategy.MethodConsecutively recruited depressed out-patients (n=228) rated 3

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Berrios, G. E. "Melancholia and Depression During the 19th Century: a Conceptual History." British Journal of Psychiatry 153, no. 3 (1988): 298–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.153.3.298.

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The meaning of ‘melancholia’ in classical antiquity is opaque and has little in common with 20th-century psychiatric usage (Drabkin, 1955; Heiberg, 1927). At that time, melancholia and mania were not polar opposites (i.e. one was not defined as having opposite features to the other). Melancholia was defined in terms of overt behavioural features such as decreased motility, and morosity (Roccatagliata, 1973; Simon, 1978). Hence, in medical usage, ‘melancholia’ referred to a subtype of mania and named, in general, states of reduced behavioural output. These included disorders that might “exhibit

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Krzyżanowska, Magdalena. "In Search of a Cure for Melancholia: The Attitude of a Listener in the Short Story “Wśród lasu" [Among the Forest] by Adam Asnyk." Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature 44, no. 1 (2020): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2020.44.1.93-104.

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<p>In my article I interpret the short story “Among the Forest” by Adam Asnyk. I discuss the issue of the relationship between auditory perception and melancholic experiences. To this end, while analyzing the text, I refer to concepts regarding the nature of melancholia and adopt the methodological apparatus of sound studies. As it turns out, the listener's attitude is crucial for overcoming melancholia. According to the poet, attentive listening to the surroundings and the words of other people allows to reach the meaning of life inscribed in nature and as a consequence may help find a

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Tsokhim, Sasha-Tsering. "Wenn die Lebensfreude austrocknet." Deutsche Heilpraktiker-Zeitschrift 14, no. 06 (2019): 50–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-0996-1607.

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SummaryHumoralmedizinisch betrachtet wird Melancholia durch ein Übermaß der kalten und trockenen schwarzen Galle verursacht. Schwarze Galle ist dem Element Erde zugeordnet. Liegt ein pathologischer Melancholera-Überschuss vor, kommt es zu psychischen und physischen Beschwerden, so auch im vorliegenden Fall. In der - meist langwierigen - Therapie von Melancholia sind die Pfeiler: Wärme und Feuchte für den Organismus, Reizreduktion und ausreichend Bewegung.

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Runions, Erin. "Refusal to Mourn." Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts 1, no. 1 (2005): 9–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/post.v1i1.9.

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In her recent book Precarious Life, Judith Butler points out that not more than ten days after 9/11, on 20 September 2001, George W. Bush urged the American people to put aside their grief; she suggests that such a refusal to mourn leads to a kind of national melancholia. Using psychoanalytic theory on melancholia, this article diagnoses causes and effects of such national melancholia. Further, it considers how a refusal to mourn in prophetic and apocalyptic texts and their interpretations operates within mainstream US American politics like the encrypted loss of the melancholic, thus creating

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Sorensen, Eli. "Postcolonial Melancholia." Paragraph 30, no. 2 (2007): 65–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/prg.2007.0025.

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The article attempts to identify some of the boundaries and limits of postcolonial studies, with a specific focus on its relationship to the literary. Leading critics have argued that the contemporary field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic, as a consequence of its institutionalization in recent years, and the article suggests reading these signs of melancholia as an expression of the failed attempt to identify with the dimension of the literary in the postcolonial text.

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Grunebaum, Michael F., Hanga C. Galfalvy, Maria A. Oquendo, Ainsley K. Burke, and J. John Mann. "Melancholia and the probability and lethality of suicide attempts." British Journal of Psychiatry 184, no. 6 (2004): 534–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.184.6.534.

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SummaryWe compared suicide attempts associated with melancholic v. non-melancholic major depression in 377 patients. Controlling for depression severity and other covariates, melancholia at baseline assessment was associated with more serious past suicide attempts and with the probability of suicide attempt during follow-up.

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Bracken, Christopher. "Manic History." Critical Times 6, no. 2 (2023): 289–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/26410478-10437067.

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Abstract On May 27, 2021, the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation reported the discovery of 215 unmarked graves on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. Their first response was mourning for the loss of young lives; their second response was melancholia for the loss of the children's names. David Eng and David Kazanjian advocate a “counterintuitive” interpretation of melancholia as “creative,” redefining it as the work of mourning that sustains “a continued and open relation to the past.” Jeff Barnaby's 2013 film about residential school resistance, Rhy

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Hickie, Ian, Catherine Hickie, Andrew Lloyd, Derrick Silove, and Denis Wakefield. "Impaired In Vivo Immune Responses in Patients with Melancholia." British Journal of Psychiatry 162, no. 5 (1993): 651–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.162.5.651.

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Previous attempts to establish a relationship between impaired cell-mediated immunity (CMI) and major mood disorders have been limited by a failure to explore the relevance of depressive subcategories or to assess CMI by in vivo methods. In this case-control study CMI was assessed in 57 patients with major depression (31 with melancholic, 26 with non-melancholic disorders), and in age- and sex-matched controls by both in vitro and in vivo immunological techniques. Compared with control subjects and patients with non-melancholic depression, patients with melancholia demonstrated reduced in vivo

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Chatterjee, Tirna. "Impossible Emotions: The Ethics of Mourning and Melancholia." Zoon Politikon 12 (2021): 74–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/2543408xzop.21.004.14427.

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This paper looks at mourning and melancholia, and their ethical implications through the work of Sigmund Freud and mostly Jacques Derrida. The attempt here is to read through Derrida’s auto thanatological oeuvre through questions of fidelity, interminability, impossibility and ethics. In our perpetual struggle as scholars dealing with questions of meaning, existence, loss, life and death this paper tries to navigate the discursive traditions of looking at mourning and melancholia and what their radical potential is or can be where the mourning; melancholic; haunted; living subjects bear an imp

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Rubino, I. Alex, Cristiana Cimino, Anna Saya, and Nicola Ciani. "Melancholia: A Defense Mechanism Test Study." Perceptual and Motor Skills 79, no. 1 (1994): 487–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1994.79.1.487.

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The defensive organization of Melancholia was explored with a tachistoscopic percept-genetic technique, the Defense Mechanism Test. A sample of 20 women inpatients with a DSM-III—R diagnosis of Major Depressive Episode or Major Depression, Melancholic Type was contrasted with a matched group of depressed outpatients and a matched group of nonclinical subjects. Signs of introaggression on the hero, statue-repression, and stereotypy significantly characterized melancholic patients. The latter were discriminated from depressed outpatients as showing more signs of stereotypy and of discontinuity.

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Moszczyńska-Dürst, Katarzyna, and Ana Garrido González. "Seguir con el problema (de género): la subjetividad poshumana, melancolía y ficción distópica según Mariña Pérez Rei y María Reimóndez." Moderna Språk 118, no. 2 (2024): 54–71. https://doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v118i2.29755.

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Posthuman feminism abandons the notion of representing a universal subject and questions the phallogocentric and humanist paradigm of the symbolic order. Subjectivity becomes ex-centric, nomadic, animalistic (both personal and communal). This, in turn, allows for the redefinition of certain interiorized narratives in relation to nature, gender, materiality and the body; those schools of thought focus on precarious and vulnerable lives, both human and non-human (Braidotti, 2022; Barad, 2007; Haraway, 2020; Segarra, 2022). Science fiction has become prominent in creating, rewriting and debating

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AUSTIN, M. P., P. MITCHELL, K. WILHELM, et al. "Cognitive function in depression: a distinct pattern of frontal impairment in melancholia?" Psychological Medicine 29, no. 1 (1999): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291798007788.

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Background. Although depressed patients demonstrate impaired performance on a range of neuropsychological tests, there is little research that examines either frontal cognitive deficits or possible differences in test performance between melancholic and non-melancholic subtypes.Methods. Depressed subjects were administered a broad neuropsychological battery. In an overall analysis, 77 depressed subjects were compared with 28 controls. In a second set of analyses, the depressed sample was divided into melancholic and non-melancholic subsets according to DSM-III-R, the CORE system and the Newcas

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Xiong, Meijia. "Drer's Melancholia I: The Relationship between Geometry and the Masterpiece." Communications in Humanities Research 3, no. 1 (2023): 382–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/3/20220343.

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The main purpose of this article is to discuss the relationship between Melancholia 1 and geometry during the Renaissance. Compared with the clear distinction between science and art today, there was no very clear boundary between science and art in the Renaissance, which made the research object of this paper have research value. The scope of investigation of this article is the work of Drer as well as other Renaissance artworks. Drer is a pioneer of the Renaissance, he is not only a representative figure of the Northern Renaissance, but also absorbed the knowledge of the Italian Renaissance,

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Schoeman, Gerhard. "Melancholy constellations: Benjamin, Kiefer, Kentridge and the play of mourning." Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics 39, no. 2 (2007): 23–67. https://doi.org/10.38140/aa.v39i2.1139.

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Intended as a summation as well as a continuation of several studies on the work of Walter Benjamin, Anselm Kiefer, and William Kentridge, this article proposes to configure Benjamin, Kiefer, and Kentridge in and as a melancholy constellation. "Melancholy constellation" serves here as a theoretical construct of the mobile concepts with which Benjamin, Kiefer, and Kentridge "preposterously" think and perform the imaging of history. On the basis of these mobile concepts, I shall also refer to my theoretical concept of melancholy constellation as a mobile constellation. Furthermore, while melanch

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Micali, Stefano. "L'alterazione del tempo nella malinconia. Un indagine fenomenologica." PARADIGMI, no. 3 (November 2009): 165–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/para2009-003012.

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- An important trend of psychiatric research views psychopathological symptoms as temporal disturbances. This essay is based on the assumption that melancholia/ depression primarily signifies an alteration of experience of time, essentially linked to an alteration of the ways in which the subjects experience their own body and how they relate to other people. The phenomenological approach allows us to understand how the melancholic person suffers a blocked future, how he/she is irrevocably marked by a past that never passes and how the present is experienced as an eternal recurrence of one and

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Abrams, Richard, and Michael Alan Taylor. "Cognitive dysfunction in melancholia." Psychological Medicine 17, no. 2 (1987): 359–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700024909.

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SynopsisSixty-seven patients with melancholia and 42 normal controls were tested with a battery of neuropsychological tasks selected to assess regional cortical functioning in both hemispheres. Compared with controls, melancholics exhibited a pattern of bifrontal and right parietal impairment, which was independent of age, sex, handedness and drug administration. These findings confirm and extend prior studies and contrast with those we and others have reported in patients with schizophrenia.

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Goh, Irving. "The Melancholic Genius without Melancholia of Jean-Luc Nancy; or, Toward a Reparative Genius." Cultural Politics 21, no. 1 (2025): 104–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-11557713.

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Abstract This essay looks at the apparent absence of melancholy in the thought and writings of Jean-Luc Nancy. It is not an insignificant absence, given that Nancy does regret it especially in light of an intellectual history that links melancholy to the idea of genius. In other words, Nancy worries that an absence of melancholy might be a symptom of a lack of genius in him. This essay proposes, however, that it is possible that Nancy's thought and writings might suggest an understanding of genius without melancholia. To elucidate the latter, this essay will return to The Literary Absolute, a

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Shaul, Dylan. "Adorno on Kierkegaard on Love for the Dead." Idealistic Studies 49, no. 2 (2019): 189–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/idstudies2019820102.

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This article employs Freud’s distinction between mourning and melancholia to clarify Adorno’s reading of Kierkegaard. Adorno finds in Kierkegaard’s view of love for the dead both the consummate reified fetish of our instrumentalizing exchange society, and the only unmutilated relation left to us in our otherwise thoroughly damaged lives. Adorno’s negative dialectics emerges as the melancholy science resulting from a disfigured mourning’s present impossibility, upholding a material moral motive rooted in the unmournability of historical catastrophe. Yet this very melancholia also proves to be t

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Parker, Gordon, Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic, Kay Wilhelm, et al. "Defining Melancholia: Properties of a Refined Sign-Based Measure." British Journal of Psychiatry 164, no. 3 (1994): 316–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.164.3.316.

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We hypothesised that psychomotor disturbance is specific to the melancholic subtype of depression and capable of defining melancholia more precisely than symptom-based criteria sets. We studied 413 depressed patients, and examined the utility of a refined, operationally driven set of clinician-rated signs, principally against a set of historically accepted symptoms of endogeneity. We specified items defining psychomotor disturbance generally as well as those weighted either to agitation or to retardation. We demonstrated the system's capacity to differentiate ‘melancholic’ and ‘non-melancholic

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Parker, Gordon. "Diagnosing melancholic depression: some personal observations." Australasian Psychiatry 25, no. 1 (2016): 21–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856216657696.

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Objectives: The objective of this study was to offer some personal observations as to how melancholia can be diagnosed and differentiated from the non-melancholic depressive conditions. Methods: Personal clinical and research-based observations are presented following a critique of common current strategies. Results: The paper offers views on the most differentiating clinical features, argues for adding illness course variables to symptoms and provides details of the Sydney Melancholic Prototypic Index, a measure with a high overall classification rate in differentiating melancholic and non-me

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Gündoğdu, Burcu. "Violence and melancholia: The story of melancholic “Butterfly” generation." International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research 2, no. 2 (2016): 355–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.279049.

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Gastó, C., J. Vallejo, JM Menchón, et al. "Platelet serotonin-binding and dexamethasone suppression test in melancholia and dysthymia." European Psychiatry 9, no. 6 (1994): 281–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0924933800002285.

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SummaryPlatelet serotonin-binding (Bmax), using tritiated-seroionin as the ligand, was determined in 75 patients suffering from major depression with melancholia and in 26 patients diagnosed from dysthymic disorder. Twenty-five normal subjects were used as a control group. The melancholic group had significantly lower Bmax values (mean: 6.7 ± 6.1 pmol/108 platelets) than either dysthymic (9.3 ± 3.9 pmol/108 platelets) or control (9.2 ± 4.8 pmol/108 platelets) groups, while there were no significant differences between the two latter groups. There was also a significant difference on postdexame

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Akbar, Rahmat, Tatang Iskarna, and Yoseph Yapi Taum. "The Subject of Melancholia in Toer’s Bumi Manusia: Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Study." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 7, no. 1 (2024): 01–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2024.7.1.1.

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This study aims to analyse and find a description of the subject of melancholia in the novel Bumi Manusia by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This study is conducted with a cursive approach by using the perspective of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic study that looks for a small lost object. This research is a qualitative study using the literature study method. The main data source for this research is the novel Bumi Manusia by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The results of this study found three types of melancholia subjects, namely generational melancholia, cultural melancholia, and alienation melancholia. Nyai

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Rees, Robert. "Melancholia." Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 46, no. 2 (2013): 94–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/dialjmormthou.46.2.0094.

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Fink, Max, and Michael A. Taylor. "Melancholia." British Journal of Psychiatry 194, no. 5 (2009): 463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.194.5.463.

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Parker, Gordon. "Melancholia." American Journal of Psychiatry 162, no. 6 (2005): 1066. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.162.6.1066.

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