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The modern concept of depression arose from earlier diagnostic formulations of melancholia over the hundred years from the 1780s to the 1880s. In this historical sketch, this evolution is traced from the writings of 12 authors outlining the central roles played by the concepts of faculty psychology and understandability.
Cognitive psychologists offered theories on depression in the mid-twentieth century. Starting in the 1950s, Albert Ellis argued that depression stemmed from irrational "should" and "musts" leading to inappropriate self-blame, self-pity, or other-pity in times of adversity. [30]
5 paź 2015 · From the earliest medical texts in ancient Greece to the present Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), deep sadness and its variants—hopelessness, sorrow, dejection, despondency, emptiness, despair, discouragement—have been mentioned as core features of depression.
9 maj 2019 · A brief historical overview. Robert Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholia [1] remarked that ancient Greek physicians were well aware of the fact that melancholic individuals complained of...
6 maj 2020 · In the first half of the 20th century, depression was only a detectable syndrome in most mental illnesses, psychoses and neuroses, and received no special attention in our societies.
1 cze 2011 · Beginning around 1970, polysomnographic studies suggested that, in addition to disturbances of sleep continuity, sleep in depression is characterized by a reduction of slow wave sleep, and a disinhibition of REM sleep – with a shortening of REM latency, a prolongation of the first REM period, and an increase in REM density. 24, 25 Shortened ...
27 mar 2023 · The earliest written accounts of what is now known as depression appeared in the second millennium B.C.E. in Mesopotamia. In these writings, depression was discussed as a spiritual rather than a physical condition. Like other mental illnesses, it was believed to be caused by demonic possession.
