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Depressive Disorder, Major

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Neurasthenia
Mood Disorders
Neuroses

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Images from the collections

Images about Depressive Disorder, Major

10 images from works
  • A depressive man standing by a country pond in the pouring rain - not helping his state of mind. Wood engraving, 1869.
  • Étude sur la mélancolie / [Paul Ferdinand Gachet].
  • Hercules, seated on a column, in a state of depression. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1781.
  • A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria") being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • Five faces expressing human passions: (clockwise from top left:) compassion, sadness and dejection of heart, a profile and frontal view of dejection, and sadness. Pen drawing after C. Le Brun.
  • A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • The melancholy temperament: an anxious woman clasps her hands as an agitated man lies on the ground. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria"), being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • John Bull shaking the hand of a sick man; referring to Wellington's illness and depression due to political strain. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

Works from the collections

119 works

    • Books

    Journeys with the black dog : inspirational stories of bringing depression to heel / edited by Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers & Gordon Parker.

    | Date: 2007
    • Books

    Getting by / Sad Ghost Club.

    Sad Ghost Club | Date: 2016
    • Books

    Antidotum melancholiæ vel, Schola curiositatis : omnibus hypochondriacis & atrabili laborantibus, sive fratribus spleneticis & melancholicis, vulgo denen Miltzbrüdern, aperta / a praenobili & expertissimo domino, Dn. Gaudioso von Fürvvitzhausen.

    | Date: 1670
    • Books

    Men and depression : helping him, helping you / [Theresa Francis-Cheung, Robin Grey].

    Francis-Cheung, Theresa | Date: 2002
    • Film

    Depression.

    | Date: 1970
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Related topics

Depression
Mental Health
Depressive Disorder
Mental Health
Depression
Anxiety
Mental Health
Melancholy
Self Care
Self Care

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