Mood disorder in the personal correspondence of Robert Burns: testing a novel interdisciplinary approach
| Autor: | Moira Hansen, Daniel J. Smith, Gerard Carruthers |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty medical humanities Famous Persons retrospective diagnosis mood disorder melancholy History 18th Century Education Objective assessment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Melancholia medicine Humans Medical humanities 030212 general & internal medicine Bipolar disorder Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) lcsh:R5-920 Robert Burns Mood Disorders 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine 060202 literary studies medicine.disease Correspondence as Topic Mental health Semantics Mood Hypomania Scotland 0602 languages and literature medicine.symptom Psychology lcsh:Medicine (General) |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Vol 48, Iss 2, Pp 165-174 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2042-8189 1478-2715 |
| Popis: | Robert Burns has long been recognised as someone who experienced episodes of melancholia, but no detailed, systematic and objective assessment of his mental health has been undertaken. We tested a novel methodology, combining psychiatric and literary approaches, to assess the feasibility of using Burns's extensive personal correspondence as a source of evidence for assessing the presence of symptoms of a clinically significant mood disorder. We confirmed the potential of this approach and identified putative evidence of episodes of depression and hypomania within the correspondence. While not conclusive of a formal diagnosis of bipolar disorder, this work highlights a need for further systematic examination of Burns's mental health and how this may have influenced his work. |
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