Is Richard Baxter’s Melancholia Still Relevant Today?: Comparative Network Structures of Depressive Symptoms in Asian Individuals With Guilt-Rich and Guilt-Free Depression
Hong Seok Oh, Junghyung Kim, Jungsoo Park, Kiwon Kim, Eunkyung Kim, Jaechang Lee, Tae Young Choi, Sung-Won Jung, Hyung-Jun Yoon, Hyun Soo Kim, Eunsoo Moon, Hyun-Ju Yang, Narae Jeong, Heechan Yoon, Tian-Mei Si, Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Andi J Tanra, Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan, Kok Yoon Chee, Afzal Javed, Kang Sim, Pornjira Pariwatcharakul, Takahiro A Kato, Shih-Ku Lin, Naotaka Shinfuku, Norman Sartorius, Seon-Cheol Park · 2026
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Hong Seok Oh and co-authors revisit a 17th-century writer's idea of melancholy in a 2026 study of how depressive symptoms hang together in Asian patients. Richard Baxter, an English churchman, treated guilt as central to melancholy, and the authors test whether guilt still shapes the pattern of modern depression.
Data came from a prescription-pattern study spanning 11 Asian countries. Patients were split by whether strong guilt appeared among their symptoms, based on one survey item about feeling bad about oneself. Network analysis mapped which symptoms link most tightly in each group and which sit at the center, showing whether guilt-rich depression forms a distinct web.
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| CREATOR | Hong Seok Oh, Junghyung Kim, Jungsoo Park, Kiwon Kim, Eunkyung Kim, Jaechang Lee, Tae Young Choi, Sung-Won Jung, Hyung-Jun Yoon, Hyun Soo Kim, Eunsoo Moon, Hyun-Ju Yang, Narae Jeong, Heechan Yoon, Tian-Mei Si, Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Andi J Tanra, Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan, Kok Yoon Chee, Afzal Javed, Kang Sim, Pornjira Pariwatcharakul, Takahiro A Kato, Shih-Ku Lin, Naotaka Shinfuku, Norman Sartorius, Seon-Cheol Park |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44039 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |