Despite the large body of literature on Lady Macbeth,little research has been undertaken to demonstrate the relationship between the invocation by Lady Macbeth in the first act and the final dreams that imprison her.F...
Yaakov Shabtai's "Departure" seems, at first glance, only to chronicle the illness and death of an unnamed grandmother living in Tel Aviv, as witnessed through the eyes of her grandson. The grandmother, an observan...
Mei Niang (1920-2013), the pen name of Sun Jiarui, is a female fiction writer, translator, and editor of Funii zazhi (Ladies' journal). In the semi-colonial Northeast China, Mei Niang's exploration of melancholi...
"Melancholia" seems to be the oldest term used to describe the manifestations of depression. Throughout the history of medicine, melancholia has been the focus of consideration of many scholars who have provided varyi...
Melancholia is a syndrome due to long-term mental pressure and stress, leading to stagnation of the liver-qi, disorder of qi and malnutrition of the heart-brain. It includes those syndromes recorded in the literature ...
Case HistoryMs. Liu, a 63-year-old housewife, paid her first visit on Oct.7, 1986 with main complaint of distension and pain in the chest and hypochondrium, and insomnia for one month.
Melancholia is a syndrome caused by emotional stress and stagnation of qi,involving theliver,affecting the heart and spleen,and leading to disharmony of qi of the zang-fu organs.Because of the complicated condition,it...