Caspar Henderson

Why the first self-help book is still worth reading: The Anatomy of Melancholy anatomised

Mary Ann Lund’s User’s Guide helps us appreciate why Robert Burton’s great doorstopper on madness remains so revered

‘A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities prescribed.’ Line engraving by M. Greuter c. 1600. Credit: Wellcome Collection
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  • A User’s Guide to Melancholy

    Mary Ann Lund

    Cambridge University Press, pp. 174, £19

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