melancholy – A New Vision for Mental Health

‘Be not solitary, be not idle’: secrets of 400-year-old self-help book unlocked

Author: Editorial 1st July 2021 0 Comments

Writing in The Guardian, Donna Ferguson says : “Admired by everyone from John Milton to Nick Cave , The Anatomy of Melancholy has always been a text that has dazzled and confounded its readers in equal measure. Now, exactly 400 years after it was published,…
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The New Anatomy of Melancholy

Author: Editorial 22nd May 2020 0 Comments

BBC Radio 4 has produced an excellent series of twelve episodes about what, a long time ago, used to be called ‘melancholy’ and is now generally called depression. Eight of these programmes (each around 13 minutes long) are available for listening now,…
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