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  • Typus melancholicus mirrored a particularly respected personality style in Japan: those who were serious, diligent, and thoughtful and expressed great concern for the welfare of other individuals and the society as a whole.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • The personality typus melancholicus was introduced in the early 1960s by a professor of clinical psychopathology from Heidelberg named Hubert Tellenbach.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • Even as the DSM diagnosis of depression became more widely employed around the world during the 1980s, the experience of deep sadness and distress in Japan retained the characteristics of the premodern conception of both utsushô and the mid-twentieth-century idealization typus melancholicus, the idea that overwhelming sadness was natural, quintessentially Japanese, and, in some ways, an enlightened state.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • Aut ibi gignitur, melancholicus fumus, aut aliunde vehitur, alterando animales facultates.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Juvenis solicitus de futuris frustra, factus melancholicus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • King of France was taken prisoner by Charles V., ad mortem fere melancholicus, saith

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui melancholicus factus plane desipiebat, multaque stulte loquebaturr, huic exhibitum 12.gr. stibium, quod paulo post atram bilem ex alvo eduxit (ut ego vidi, qui vocatus tanquam ad miraculum adfui testari possum,) et ramenta tunquam carnis dissecta in partes totum excrementum tanquam sanguinem nigerrimum repraesentabat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • To some it is in disposition, to another in habit; and as they write of heat and cold, we may say of this humour, one is melancholicus ad octo, a second two degrees less, a third halfway.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nimiis studiis melancholicus evasit, dicens se Biblium in capite habere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Studium sit omne ut melancholicus impinguetur: ex quo enim pingues et carnosi, illico sani sunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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