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47-542: [REDACTED] Look up melancholy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melancholy may refer to: Melancholia , one of the four temperaments in pre-modern medicine and proto-psychology, representing a state of low mood Depression (mood) , a state of low mood, also known as melancholy Major depressive disorder , a mood disorder historically called melancholy Arts and books [ edit ] Melancholy (novel) ,

94-486: A randomized clinical trial , it was shown that CBT was less effective than medication in treating symptoms of melancholic depression after 12 weeks. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was previously believed to be an effective treatment for melancholic depression. ECT has been more commonly used for patients with melancholic depression due to the severity. In 2010, a study found that 60% of depression patients treated with ECT had melancholic symptoms. However, studies since

141-628: A "malcontent", is epitomized by Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet , the "Melancholy Dane". A similar phenomenon, though not under the same name, occurred during the German Sturm und Drang movement, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats or in Symbolism with works such as Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin . In

188-521: A 1995 novel by Jon Fosse Melancholy II or Melancholia II , a 1996 novella by Jon Fosse Melancholy (Munch) , an 1891–1893 series of paintings by Edvard Munch Melancholy (Hayez) , an 1840-1841 painting by Francesco Hayez Music [ edit ] Melancholy (album) , a 1999 live free jazz album by Cecil Taylor's Workshop Ensemble Melancholy , 2019 album by Shadow of Intent "Melancholy" (song) , an environmental song by 365 Nepali artists 2017 Melancholy (documentary) ,

235-420: A 1998 song by Iced Earth from the album Something Wicked This Way Comes "Melancholy", a 2017 song by the rapper Murs "Melancholy", a 2009 song by Timothy B. Schmit from the album Expando See also [ edit ] Melancholia (disambiguation) La Malinconia (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

282-409: A 1999 live free jazz album by Cecil Taylor's Workshop Ensemble Melancholy , 2019 album by Shadow of Intent "Melancholy" (song) , an environmental song by 365 Nepali artists 2017 Melancholy (documentary) , a 2018 documentary based on environmental research studies of the regions of Nepal from 2013 to 2018 " Melancolie ", a 1983 Moldovan song written by Grigore Vieru "Melancholy",

329-515: A 2018 documentary based on environmental research studies of the regions of Nepal from 2013 to 2018 " Melancolie ", a 1983 Moldovan song written by Grigore Vieru "Melancholy", a 1998 song by Iced Earth from the album Something Wicked This Way Comes "Melancholy", a 2017 song by the rapper Murs "Melancholy", a 2009 song by Timothy B. Schmit from the album Expando See also [ edit ] Melancholia (disambiguation) La Malinconia (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

376-467: A blend of "wishful" and the obsolete English wistly , meaning "intently"), and saturnineness (from Latin Saturninus : "of the planet Saturn ). The name "melancholia" comes from the old medical belief of the four humours : disease or ailment being caused by an imbalance in one or more of the four basic bodily liquids, or humours. Personality types were similarly determined by the dominant humor in

423-499: A considerable influence on early Romantics in England, France and Germany. William Blake was commissioned to illustrate a later edition. In the visual arts, this fashionable intellectual melancholy occurs frequently in portraiture of the era, with sitters posed in the form of "the lover, with his crossed arms and floppy hat over his eyes, and the scholar, sitting with his head resting on his hand"  – descriptions drawn from

470-488: A long time" as being symptomatic of melancholia. Other symptoms mentioned by Hippocrates include: poor appetite, abulia , sleeplessness, irritability, agitation. The Hippocratic clinical description of melancholia shows significant overlaps with contemporary nosography of depressive syndromes (6 symptoms out of the 9 included in DSM diagnostic criteria for a Major Depressive). In ancient Rome , Galen added "fixed delusions" to

517-456: A melancholic depression diagnosis. Melancholic depression, due to some fundamental differences with standard clinical depression or other subtypes of depression, has specific types of treatments that work, and the success rates for different treatments can vary. Treatment can involve antidepressants and empirically supported treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy for depression. Melancholic depression

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564-412: A particular person. According to Hippocrates and subsequent tradition, melancholia was caused by an excess of black bile, hence the name, which means "black bile", from Ancient Greek μέλας ( melas ), "dark, black", and χολή ( kholé ), "bile"; a person whose constitution tended to have a preponderance of black bile had a melancholic disposition. In the complex elaboration of humorist theory, it

611-574: A sign of vice into a mark of genius. This fashionable melancholy became a prominent theme in literature, art, and music of the era. Between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, melancholia was a common medical diagnosis. In this period, the focus was on the abnormal beliefs associated with the disorder, rather than depression and affective symptoms. In the 19th century, melancholia was considered to be rooted in subjective 'passions' that seemingly caused disordered mood (in contrast to modern biomedical explanations for mood disorders). In Victorian Britain,

658-641: A specific disorder of movement and mood. They attached the term to the concept of "endogenous depression" (claimed to be caused by internal forces rather than environmental influences). In 2006, Michael Alan Taylor and Max Fink also defined melancholia as a systemic disorder that could be identified by depressive mood rating scales, verified by the presence of abnormal cortisol metabolism. They considered it to be characterized by depressed mood, abnormal motor functions, and abnormal vegetative signs, and they described several forms, including retarded depression , psychotic depression and postpartum depression . For

705-487: A state of low mood, also known as melancholy Major depressive disorder , a mood disorder historically called melancholy Arts and books [ edit ] Melancholy (novel) , a 1995 novel by Jon Fosse Melancholy II or Melancholia II , a 1996 novella by Jon Fosse Melancholy (Munch) , an 1891–1893 series of paintings by Edvard Munch Melancholy (Hayez) , an 1840-1841 painting by Francesco Hayez Music [ edit ] Melancholy (album) ,

752-509: Is a sovereign remedy against despair and melancholy, and will drive away the devil himself. Canus, a Rhodian fiddler, in Philostratus, when Apollonius was inquisitive to know what he could do with his pipe, told him, "That he would make a melancholy man merry, and him that was merry much merrier than before, a lover more enamoured, a religious man more devout." Ismenias the Theban, Chiron the centaur,

799-419: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages melancholy [REDACTED] Look up melancholy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melancholy may refer to: Melancholia , one of the four temperaments in pre-modern medicine and proto-psychology, representing a state of low mood Depression (mood) ,

846-446: Is often considered to be a biologically based and particularly severe form of depression. Therefore, the treatments for this specifier of depression are more biomedical and less psychosocial (which would include talk therapy and social support). The general initial or "ideal" treatment for melancholic depression is antidepressant medication, and psychotherapy is added later on as support if at all. The scientific support for medication as

893-459: Is said to have cured this and many other diseases by music alone: as now they do those, saith Bodine, that are troubled with St. Vitus's Bedlam dance. In the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert , the causes of melancholia are stated to be similar to those that cause Mania : "grief, pains of the spirit, passions, as well as all the love and sexual appetites that go unsatisfied." During

940-443: The 2000s have failed to demonstrate positive treatment results from ECT, although studies also indicate a more positive response to ECT in melancholic patients than other depressed patients. It has been observed in studies that patients with melancholic depression tend to recover less often than other types of depression. The prevalence of having the melancholic depression specifier among patients diagnosed with clinical depression

987-662: The 20th century, much of the counterculture of modernism was fueled by comparable alienation and a sense of purposelessness called " anomie "; earlier artistic preoccupation with death has gone under the rubric of memento mori . The medieval condition of acedia ( acedie in English) and the Romantic Weltschmerz were similar concepts, most likely to affect the intellectual. Until the 18th century, writings on melancholia were mainly concerned with beliefs that were considered abnormal, rather than affective symptoms. Melancholia

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1034-421: The antidepressants tend to vary on how they work and what specific chemical messengers in the brain they target. SNRIs are generally more effective than SSRIs because they target more than one chemical messenger ( serotonin and norepinephrine ). Although psychotherapy treatments can be used such as talk therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), they have shown to be less effective than medication. In

1081-410: The best treatment is that patients with melancholic depression are less likely to improve with placebos, unlike other depression patients. This indicates the improvements observed after medication actually come from the biological basis of the condition and the treatment. There are several types of antidepressants that can be prescribed including SSRIs , SNRIs , tricyclic antidepressants , and MAOIs ;

1128-459: The close of the Middle Ages, a sombre melancholy weighs on people's souls." In chronicles, poems, sermons, even in legal documents, an immense sadness, a note of despair and a fashionable sense of suffering and deliquescence at the approaching end of times, suffuses court poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of Eustache Deschamps , "monotonous and gloomy variations of

1175-580: The condition include problems with the HPA axis and sleep structure of patients. MRI studies have indicated that melancholic depressed patients have issues with the connections between different regions of the brain, specifically the insula and fronto-parietal cortex . Some studies have found that there are biological marker differences between patients with melancholic depression and other subtypes of depression. The research regarding melancholic depression consistently finds that men are more likely to receive

1222-542: The existence of a condition he called ' involutional melancholia ', which he thought could help explain the more frequent occurrence of depression among elderly people. He surmised that in the elderly "the processes of involution in the body are suited to engender mournful or anxious moodiness", though by 1913 he had returned to his earlier view (first expounded in 1899) that age-related depression could be understood in terms of manic-depressive illness . In 1996, Gordon Parker and Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic described "melancholia" as

1269-572: The following: Melancholic features apply to an episode of depression that occurs as part of either major depressive disorder , persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) , or bipolar disorder I or II . They are more likely to occur in patients who suffer from depression with psychotic features . People with melancholic depression also tend to have more physically visible symptoms such as slower movement or speech. The causes of melancholic depressive disorder are believed to be mostly biological factors that can be hereditary. Biological origins of

1316-478: The frontispiece to the 1638 edition of Burton's Anatomy , which shows just such by-then stock characters. These portraits were often set out of doors where Nature provides "the most suitable background for spiritual contemplation" or in a gloomy interior. In music, the post-Elizabethan cult of melancholia is associated with John Dowland , whose motto was Semper Dowland, semper dolens ("Always Dowland, always mourning"). The melancholy man, known to contemporaries as

1363-534: The humoral, somatic paradigm for understanding sustained sadness lost primacy in front of the prevailing religious perspective. Sadness came to be a vice (λύπη in the Greek vice list by Evagrius Ponticus, tristitia vel acidia in the 7 vice list by Pope Gregory I ). When a patient could not be cured of the disease it was thought that the melancholia was a result of demonic possession . In his study of French and Burgundian courtly culture, Johan Huizinga noted that "at

1410-497: The later 16th and early 17th centuries, a curious cultural and literary cult of melancholia arose in England. In an influential 1964 essay in Apollo , art historian Roy Strong traced the origins of this fashionable melancholy to the thought of the popular Neoplatonist and humanist Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), who replaced the medieval notion of melancholia with something new: Ficino transformed what had hitherto been regarded as

1457-497: The list of symptoms. In the Middle Ages , the understanding of melancholia shifted to a religious perspective, with sadness seen as a vice and demonic possession , rather than somatic causes, as a potential cause of the disease. During the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a cultural and literary cult of melancholia emerged in England, linked to Neoplatonist and humanist Marsilio Ficino 's transformation of melancholia from

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1504-463: The main diagnosis. According to the DSM-IV , the "melancholic features" specifier may be applied to the following only: It is important to note, however, that people who suffer from melancholic depression do not need to have melancholic features in every depressive episode. Melancholic depression requires at least one of the following symptoms during the last depressive episode : And at least three of

1551-490: The most calamitous of all the humours into the mark of genius. Small wonder that eventually the attitudes of melancholy soon became an indispensable adjunct to all those with artistic or intellectual pretentions. The Anatomy of Melancholy ( The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it... Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up ) by Burton,

1598-461: The nature of their work, sometimes with good effects for their art in increased sensitivity and use of fantasy. Among those of his contemporaries so characterised by Vasari were Pontormo and Parmigianino , but he does not use the term of Michelangelo , who used it, perhaps not very seriously, of himself. A famous allegorical engraving by Albrecht Dürer is entitled Melencolia I . This engraving has been interpreted as portraying melancholia as

1645-443: The notion of melancholia as a disease evolved as it became increasingly classifiable and diagnosable with a set list of symptoms that contributed to a biomedical model for the understanding mental disease. However, in the 20th century, the focus again shifted, and the term became used essentially as a synonym for depression. Indeed, modern concepts of depression as a mood disorder eventually arose from this historical context. Today,

1692-453: The purposes of medical diagnostic classification , the terms "melancholia" and "melancholic" are still in use (for example, in ICD-11 and DSM-5 ) to specify certain features that may be present in major depression , referred to as depression with melancholic features such as: A specifier essentially is a subcategory of a disease, explaining specific features or symptoms that are added to

1739-524: The same dismal theme", and in Georges Chastellain 's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late 15th-century poetry of Jean Meschinot . Ideas of reflection and the workings of imagination are blended in the term merencolie , embodying for contemporaries "a tendency", observes Huizinga, "to identify all serious occupation of the mind with sadness". Painters were considered by Vasari and other writers to be especially prone to melancholy by

1786-417: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Melancholy . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melancholy&oldid=1259711440 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1833-626: The set of symptoms listed by Hippocrates. Galen also believed that melancholia caused cancer. Aretaeus of Cappadocia , in turn, believed that melancholia involved both a state of anguish, and a delusion. In the 10th century Persian physician Al-Akhawayni Bokhari described melancholia as a chronic illness caused by the impact of black bile on the brain. He described melancholia's initial clinical manifestations as "suffering from an unexplained fear, inability to answer questions or providing false answers, self-laughing and self-crying and speaking meaninglessly, yet with no fever." In Middle-Ages Europe,

1880-524: The state of waiting for inspiration to strike, and not necessarily as a depressive affliction. Amongst other allegorical symbols, the picture includes a magic square and a truncated rhombohedron . The image in turn inspired a passage in The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson (B.V.) , and, a few years later, a sonnet by Edward Dowden . The most extended treatment of melancholia comes from Robert Burton , whose The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) treats

1927-434: The subject from both a literary and a medical perspective . His concept of melancholia includes all mental illness, which he divides into different types. Burton wrote in the 17th century that music and dance were critical in treating mental illness. But to leave all declamatory speeches in praise of divine music, I will confine myself to my proper subject: besides that excellent power it hath to expel many other diseases, it

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1974-401: The term "melancholia" and "melancholic" are still used in medical diagnostic classification, such as in ICD-11 and DSM-5 , to specify certain features that may be present in major depression. Related terms used in historical medicine include lugubriousness (from Latin lugere : "to mourn"), moroseness (from Latin morosus : "self-will or fastidious habit"), wistfulness (from

2021-459: The title Melancholy . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melancholy&oldid=1259711440 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Melancholia Melancholy

2068-511: Was a category that "the well-to-do, the sedentary, and the studious were even more liable to be placed in the eighteenth century than they had been in preceding centuries." In the 20th century, "melancholia" lost its attachment to abnormal beliefs, and in common usage became entirely a synonym for depression. Sigmund Freud published a paper on Mourning and Melancholia in 1918. In 1907, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin influentially proposed

2115-526: Was associated with the earth from the Four Elements , the season of autumn, the spleen as the originating organ and cold and dry as related qualities. In astrology it showed the influence of Saturn , hence the related adjective saturnine . Melancholia was described as a distinct disease with particular mental and physical symptoms in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Hippocrates, in his Aphorisms , characterized all "fears and despondencies, if they last

2162-491: Was first published in 1621 and remains a defining literary monument to the fashion. Another major English author who made extensive expression upon being of an melancholic disposition is Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici (1643). Night-Thoughts ( The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality ), a long poem in blank verse by Edward Young was published in nine parts (or "nights") between 1742 and 1745, and hugely popular in several languages. It had

2209-624: Was regarded as one of the four temperaments matching the four humours . Until the 18th century, doctors and other scholars classified melancholic conditions as such by their perceived common cause – an excess of a notional fluid known as "black bile", which was commonly linked to the spleen . Hippocrates and other ancient physicians described melancholia as a distinct disease with mental and physical symptoms, including persistent fears and despondencies, poor appetite, abulia , sleeplessness, irritability, and agitation. Later, fixed delusions were added by Galen and other physicians to

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