The pathology of the emotions (360G-Wellcome-092988_Z_10_Z)

£91,369

My research will show how melancholy in nineteenth-century Britain was conceptualised as a disease of the emotions situated in the brain through the influence of German psychiatry and neurology. There are five main goals to this project: - To address a lack in existing historical scholarship as no comprehensive study of nineteenth-century melancholy exists. - To demonstrate how the understanding of melancholy as a disease of the emotions was facilitated by two key developments: Firstly, the creation of 'emotions' as a psychological category within the emergent evolutionary paradigm, and secondly the growing influence of physiology and neurology on psychiatric thought and practice which involved understanding its functions through the concept of 'mental reflex'. - To show how emotions were produced as symptoms of melancholy and made into a useful psychiatric category. - To explore, through a close reading of case reports and patient letters, - To consider what the implications were of this biomedical cerebral melancholy for how 'normal' and 'pathological' emotions came to be understood and defined in the late nineteenth century.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 91369
Applicant Surname Jansson
Approval Committee Medical History and Humanities Funding Committee
Award Date 2010-06-10T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2009/10
Grant Programme: Title PhD Studentship in H&SS
Internal ID 092988/Z/10/Z
Lead Applicant Ms Asa Jansson
Partnership Value 91369
Planned Dates: End Date 2013-09-19T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2010-09-20T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London
Sponsor(s) Prof Virginia Davis