I’m preparing an article on depression and want to say a few words so I decided to ask Claude about it. Note its remarks about long-term historical trends, Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, and about the “melancholy Dane” (Hamlet). I’ve not attempted to verify any of this, but it looks reasonable to me. It’s certainly a reasonable starting point for a serious look through the archives; here are some posts about depression at New Savanna. I did read large chunks of Burton’s remarkable book while in graduate school.
I’ve appended its remarks below. I’m ...
