From melancholia to prozac : a history of depression /
Clark Lawlor.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- xi, 265 p. : ill., port. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Dr Samuiel Johnson (1709-84) -- 1. 'Poor wretch' -- 2. Genius and despair -- 3. From spleen to sensibility -- 4. Victorians, melancholia and neurasthenia -- 5. Modernism, melancholia and depression -- 6. The new depression -- 7. 'The drugs don't work'? the future for depression and melancholia.