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Churchill and the 'black dog' of depression = reassessing the biographical evidence of psychological disorder /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Churchill and the 'black dog' of depression/ Wilfred Attenborough.
Reminder of title:	reassessing the biographical evidence of psychological disorder /
Author:	Attenborough, Wilfred.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2014.,
Description:	264 p. :5 b&w, ill., up to. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Depression, Mental. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137462302 (electronic bk.) :

Churchill and the 'black dog' of depression = reassessing the biographical evidence of psychological disorder /
Attenborough, Wilfred.

Churchill and the 'black dog' of depressionreassessing the biographical evidence of psychological disorder /[electronic resource] :Wilfred Attenborough. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 264 p. :5 b&w, ill., up to.

Electronic book text.

1. Introduction: Black Dog and The Problem of Evidence 2. The Psychology of Churchill's Ambition 3. Breakdown in the Commons 4. Depressing at the Home Office? 5. Near-Breakdown and Capital Cases 6. Churchill's Black Dog Letter 7. Black Dog after the Admiralty? 8. Constrained by Lloyd George 9. Black Dog or Brown Study? 10. Contented at The Treasury and Chartwell 11. Depression and the Vision of Death 12. Moran's Modus Operandi 13. The Quest for Vindication 14. Fighting Against Atherosclerosis 15. Doctored Diary and Noteworthy Notebook 16. Reassessing Black Dog Appendix: The Moran Diary Entry for 2 August 1945.

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Churchill's 'Black Dog' is widely believed to have been an inborn tendency towards prolonged and despairing depression. In this, the first book-length study of all the available biographical evidence, some of which has never before been published, the truth emerges as significantly less grave than legend has it, but more psychologically complex.Winston Churchill is widely believed to have been at risk from a congenital tendency towards prolonged, despairing, even suicidal, depression, from which he is said to have sought escape in ceaseless career-related endeavour. In this, the first book-length sifting of all the available biographical evidence, including extracts from archival letters and papers and never before been published materials, the truth emerges as significantly less grave than legend has it, but somewhat more complex. An essay Churchill published first in 1925 as a magazine article with the deceptively mundane title 'Hobbies' emerges as the key to understanding the cultural icon's actual psychological difficulties, and his management of them. Attenborough's pioneering book provides a clearer and deeper understanding of Churchill the man, and it substantially modifies the established interpretation of the influence of his inner world on Churchill the politician and statesman.

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Wilfred Attenborough is an independent scholar based in the UK who has been researching the evidential foundations of Winston Churchill's 'Black Dog' for several years. Before retirement in 2008 he was a Family Court Welfare Officer and Adviser.

ISBN: 1137462302 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Personal Names:

1008951
Churchill, Winston,
Sir,1874-1965.--Mental health.Subjects--Topical Terms:

554792
Depression, Mental.

LC Class. No.: DA566.9.C5 / A88 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 616.8527009

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