Jennifer Radden is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Part 1: Aristotle to Freud
1: Aristotle (or a Follower of Aristotle), Melancholy, from Problems
2: Galen, Diseases of the Black Bile, from On the Affected Parts
3: Cassian, Of the Spirit of Accidie, from The Foundations of the Cenobitic Life and the Eight Capital Sins Book X Chapters I-IV
4: Avicenna, On Black Bileand Melancholia, from Canon of Medicine
5: Hildegard of Bingen, Melancholia in Men and Women, from Holistic Healing
6: Ficino, Learned People and Melancholy, from The Three Books of Life
7: Weyer, Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons, from Of Deceiving Demons

9: Bright, Melancholy from Treatise of Melancholy
10: Burton, Melancholic States, from The Anatomy of Melancholy
11: Butler, A Melancholy Man, from Characters
12: Mather, The Cure of Melancholy, from The Angel of Bethesda
13: Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, from The Spleen
14: Boerhaave, Chronical Diseases, from Aphorisms Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases
15: Goethe, Werther's Death, from The Sorrows of Young Werther
16: Kant, Illnesses of Cognitive Faculties, from Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
17: Pinel, Melancholia, from A Treatise on Insanity
18: Rush, Of the Remedies for Hypochondriasis or Tristimania, from Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind
19: Keats, Ode on Melancholy, Darkness Sonnet
20: Griesinger, States of Mental Depression, from Mental Pathology and Therapeutics
21: Baudelaire, Autumn Song, Spleen
22: Smiles, On Green Sickness and Wertherism, from Self Help
23: Maudsley, Ideational Insanity, from The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind
24: Kraepelin, Manic Depressive Insanity, from Textbook of Psychiatry
25: Freud, Mourning and Melancholia
Part 2: After Freud
26: Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States
27: Seligman, The Learned Helplessness Model of Depression, from Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death
28: Beck, The Paradoxes of Depression, from Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
29: Miller, Ties to Others, from Toward a New Psychology of Women
30: Kristeva, Psychoanalysis--A Counterdepressant, from The Black Sun: Depression and Melancholy
31: Goodwin and Jameson, Biomedical Models, from Manic-Depressive Illness