Part one of term paper
is when a person is in a melancholy state. In the Encyclopedia Americana is defined as a normal response to a sense of loss, “but when the is unrelated to any actual event or is grossly excessive in portion to its apparent cause, then it reflects some form of mental illness" (747). It is very unclear whether is produced by the psychol ...

Part two of term paper
... Hippocrates described the symptoms of his “melancholy” patients to what we call today, clinical or endogenous (Dawson 199). It hasn’t been until recent times that any mental illness has been understood as a disease. wasn’t regarded on the same level as other diseases until the publication of Pinel’s Traile medico-philosophique sur l’alienation mentale ou la manie in 1801 (Murphy 127). This documentation caused extensive research on mental illness for the next fifty years. Duri ...