PSYCH 109: Mood Disorders - Historical Introduction and Conceptual Overview
Medlock Holmes enters the Great Museum of the Emotional Mind.
It is unlike any museum he has visited before.
Instead of paintings, its galleries contain theories.
Instead of fossils, there are abandoned explanations of human suffering.
And running through the centre of the building is an enormous pendulum.
At one extreme is engraved:
MELANCHOLIA
At the other:
MANIA
The pendulum has been swinging for more than two millennia.
Holmes soon discovers that the history of mood disorders is not simply the history of old psychiatric diagnoses.
It is the story of psychiatry itself attempting to answer…
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