On Melancholy and Depression

"This volume combines a talk delivered by Hillman in Rome in 1999 on melancholy with an edited transcript of three seminars on the subject of melancholy and depression held at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California: "In Defense of Melancholy" (1992), "Depressive Syndromes" (1994), and "The Place of Depression in a Manic Civilization" (2000)"–