Endocrine Psychiatry - Shorter, Edward (Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medici, Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medici, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) a Fink, Max, MD (Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emerit

Melancholia, a severe form of depression, has stumped generations of clinicians. In the mid twentieth century it was connected to dysfunctions between the brain and the endocrine system. The authors trace the rise and fall of endocrine psychiatry from 1900 to the present in an effort to solve the mystery of melancholia.