Narratives of melancholy: A humanities approach to depression

Medical Humanities

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-39

  Flynn, Deborah ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANITIES; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 77956128921     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2009.002022     Document Type: Article

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