Adams, John Quincy, [>], [>]
Adaptation
by Lincoln, [>], [>]
Vaillant on, [>]–[>]
Aeschylus, quoted, [>]
Age of Reason, The (Paine), [>]
Agnew, Spiro, [>]
Akiskal, Hagop S., [>]
Albany Times Union, [>]
Alcohol consumption, [>], [>] (n.88). See also Temperance movement
Alloy, Lauren, [>]–[>]
Altruism, as adaptation, [>]
American Colonization Society, [>]
American Manhood (Rotundo), [>]
American Party, [>]
American Psychiatric Association, forerunner of, [>]
American Revolution
Lincoln on, [>]
See also Declaration of Independence
America’s God (Noll), [>]
Amtrak, and “Anne Rutledge” train, [>]
“Anatomy of American Melancholy, The” (lecture series), [>]
Anderson, Dwight, [>]
Anderson, Sherwood, [>]
Andreasen, Nancy, [>]
Angle, Paul, [>]
“Animal magnetism,” [>]
Anticipation, as adaptation, [>]
Antietam, battle of, [>]
Aristotle
on human psyche, [>]
and humoral theory, [>]
as melancholic, [>]
Arnold, Isaac, [>]
Ashley, James, [>]
Assassination, Lincoln’s fatalistic view of, [>]
Association of Lincoln Presenters, [>], [>]–[>]
Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, [>]
Atlanta, capture of, [>]
Atlantic Monthly
and article on Lincoln and Rutledge, [>]
fake Rutledge-Lincoln letters in, [>]–[>]
Augustine, Saint, [>]
Baker, Edward D., [>], [>]
Baker, Jean, [>]
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, “Anne Rutledge” train on, [>]
Baptists, Lincoln family as, [>]–[>]
Barton, William E., [>], [>]
Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud, The, [>]
Bates, Edward, [>]
Battle Cry of Freedom (McPherson), [>]
“Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Howe), [>]
Beckley, West Virginia, Association of Lincoln Presenters convention at, [>], [>]
Beecher, Henry Ward, [>], [>]
Bell, Jane, [>], [>]
Bell, John, [>]
Belushi, John, [>]
Bentall, Richard, [>]
“Better angels of our nature,” [>]–[>]
Beveridge, Albert, [>]
Bible
Lincoln reads on final day, [>]
Lincoln receives as gift, [>], [>]
Lincoln takes comfort from, [>], [>]
Bingham, James Harvey, [>]
Biographers
intuition and research as methods of, [>]
See also Psychobiography(ies)
Biological psychiatry, forerunners of, [>]
Bipolar disorder (manic depression), [>], [>]
and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, [>]
Birch, Jonathan, [>]
Black, Chauncey, [>]
Black Hawk War, [>]
“Black laws” of Illinois, [>]
Blacks
and draft riots, [>]
See also Slavery
Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, [>], [>]–[>]
Bloomington speech of Lincoln, [>]
“Blue mass,” [>], [>]–[>] (n.112)
“Blue spells,” [>], [>]
Book of Job, [>], [>]
Booth, John Wilkes, [>]–[>]
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America (Sandage), [>]–[>]
Bowen, Henry C., [>]
Breakdowns of Lincoln due to melancholy
first (1835), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and Herndon’s research, [>]
historians’ dismissal of, [>], [>]
letter written after, [>]–[>], [>]
as reason’s desertion, [>], [>]
Sandburg on, [>]
second (1840–1841), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
causes of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
clarity and resolve as result of, [>], [>], [>]
convalescence from, [>]
and Drake, [>]–[>]
and “fatal first,” [>], [>], [>]–[>]
historians’ downplaying of, [>]
letter following, [>], [>]
Randall on, [>], [>]–[>]
and Randall on Mary Todd, [>]
Mary Todd on, [>]
anticipating marriage to Mary Todd, [>]–[>]
Breckinridge, John C., [>]
Breese, Sidney, [>]
Bright, John, [>]
Brill, A. A., [>]
Brooks, Noah, [>], [>]
Brooks, Preston, [>]
Bross, William J., [>]–[>]
Brown, John, [>], [>]
Browne, Charles Farrar, [>]
Browning, O. H., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Buchanan, James, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Buddha, [>], [>]
Bukowski, Charles, [>]
Burlingame, Michael, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Burns, Anthony, [>]
Burns, Robert, poetry of, [>], [>]
Burton, Robert, [>]
Butler, Andrew, [>]
Butler, Mrs. William, [>], [>]
Butler, William, [>], [>]
Butler, William Allen, [>]
Byron, Lord, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Calhoun, John C., [>], [>], [>]
California gold rush, [>]
Calvinism, of Lincoln family, [>]–[>], [>]
Camus, Albert, [>]
Cannon, Joseph G., [>]
Carlini (comic actor in anecdote), [>]–[>]
Carpenter, Francis, [>]
Case history, vs. narrative, [>]–[>]
Cassian, John, [>]
Chancellorsville, battle of, [>]
“Character issue,” depression as, [>], [>] (n.167)
Charleston, South Carolina, 1860 Democratic convention in, [>]
Chester County (Pennsylvania) Times, [>]
Chicago, 1860 Republican national convention in, [>]
Chicken Soup for the Soul, [>]
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), [>]
Christians Defense, The (Smith), [>]
Chronic depression, [>]
and letdown after achievement, [>]–[>]
small talk as challenge in, [>]
See also Depression
Circassians, Tolstoy anecdote on, [>]–[>]
“City on the Hill,” [>]
Civil rights, Lincoln’s position on, [>], [>]–[>] (n.139)
Civil War
battles of
Antietam, [>]
Chancellorsville, [>]
early defeats for Union, [>]
Gettysburg, [>], [>]
Grant’s campaign in Virginia, [>]
Sherman’s capture of Atlanta, [>]
Shiloh, [>]
Vicksburg, [>], [>]
beginning of
Buchanan’s inertia, [>]
secession of lower southern states, [>]–[>]
Sumter attacked, [>]
troops called up, [>]
John Brown’s raid as provocation to, [>]
and call for “endless retribution,” [>]
Copperheads in opposition to, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
dark days of December 1862, [>]–[>]
and death of Elmer Ellsworth, [>]–[>]
devastation from, [>]–[>]
draft riots during, [>]–[>]
1863–1864 successes, [>]
and Emancipation Proclamation, [>]–[>]
and Gettysburg Address, [>]–[>]
and Lincoln’s second inaugural, [>]–[>]
McClellan as leader in, [>]–
[>]
and “Meditation on the Divine Will,” [>]–[>]
and precarious situation of Washington, D.C., [>]
Randall on, [>]
and slavery, [>]–[>]
surrender at Appomattox, [>]
Clark, L. Pierce, [>]
Clarke, James Freeman, [>]
Clay, Henry
and colonization by blacks, [>]
and 1850 compromise, [>]
Lincoln in Congress with, [>]
as Lincoln hero, [>], [>]
Missouri Compromise of, [>]
and “self-made man,” [>]
as senator, [>]
and Mary Todd, [>]
and Whig nomination for president, [>], [>]
“Clinical depression,” [>]
Clinton, DeWitt, [>]
Coffin, Charles Carlton, [>]
Cogdal, Isaac, [>], [>]–[>]
Cognitive dissonance theory, [>] (n.136)
Cohen, David B., [>]
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, The, [>]
Colonization by blacks, proposal for after end of slavery, [>], [>]
Colored Orphan Asylum, [>]
Complexity
in creativity, [>]
of human trouble, [>]
of Lincoln, [>]
of melancholy, [>]
Compromise of 1850, [>]
Concepts of Psychiatry, The (Ghaemi), [>]
Confederate States of America, [>]
Confessions, of mental disability, [>]
by Eagleton, [>]
by men vs. women, [>]
Conkling, James, [>]
Constitution, U.S.
and Emancipation Proclamation, [>]
and Jefferson on religious liberty, [>]
and Lincoln on slavery, [>]
for antislavery amendment, [>]
and question of regulation in territories, [>]–[>]
Constitutional Unionists, [>]
Cooper Union, Lincoln’s speech at, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Coping mechanism, Lincoln’s humor as, [>]
Copperheads, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Corneau and Diller drugstore, Springfield, [>]
Creative achievement, and melancholy, [>], [>]
Creativity
Csikszentmihalyi on, [>]–[>]
mental illness combined with, [>]–[>]
and suffering, [>]
Crook, William H., [>]
Crouch, Stanley, [>]
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, [>]–[>]
Culture, and individual psychology, [>]
Dall, Caroline, [>]
Dangerfield, Rodney, [>]
Darkness Visible (Styron), [>]
Darwin, Charles, [>], [>]
Davis, Cullum, [>]
Davis, David, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Davis, Jefferson, [>], [>], [>]
Davis, Rodney, [>], [>]
Dean, Howard, [>]
Death, mid-nineteenth-century acceptance of, [>]
De Bow’s Review, [>]
Declaration of Independence, Lincoln on, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Defenses, psychological, [>]–[>]
Delbanco, Andrew, [>], [>], [>]
Democracy in America (Tocqueville), [>]
Democratic party, [>]
in 1860 election, [>]
in 1864 election, [>]–[>]
policy of under Jackson, [>]
and slavery, [>]
demise of over, [>]
and “Nebraska bill,” [>]
Depression, [>], [>]
biological predisposition to, [>]
chronic, [>]
and letdown after achievement, [>]–[>]
small talk as challenge in, [>]
among comics, [>]
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders on, [>], [>]
and Drake, [>]
elusive causation of, [>]–[>]
as emotional catalyst, [>]
episodic vs. chronic, [>]
evolutionary psychology on, [>]–[>]
fear of madness in, [>]
and gender roles, [>], [>]
and hypomania, [>]
insight from, [>]
and Lincoln, [>]
and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, [>]
of Lincoln and of Lincoln presenter, [>]
and melancholia, [>]
as paralysis, [>]
receding of positive ideas in, [>]
recovery through effective mastery of, [>]
recurrence of episodes of, [>]
resistance to acknowledgment of, [>]
of Sherman, [>]
social withdrawal as feature of, [>]
and spirituality, [>], [>]
stimuli of, [>]
Styron on, [>], [>] (n.40)
suicides from, [>]
thought habits in, [>]
See also Lincoln, Abraham, MELANCHOLY OF; Melancholy
Depression (financial) of 1837, [>]
Depressive realism, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Descartes, René, [>]
Destiny(ies)
Lincoln’s belief in, [>]–[>], [>]
See also Fatalism
Determinism
of Lincoln, [>]
See also Fatalism
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
forerunners of, [>], [>]
and Lincoln’s breakdown, [>], [>]
Dicey, Edward, [>]
Dickinson, Emily
mood disorder of, [>]
on poetry, [>]
Disraeli, Benjamin, [>]
Dix, Dorothea, [>]
DNA of Lincoln, [>] (n.22)
Donald, David Herbert, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Double consciousness of Lincoln, [>]
Doubt: A History (Hecht), [>]
Douglas(s), Stephen, [>]–[>], [>]
and college recommendation for Robert Lincoln, [>]
in debate with Lincoln (1840), [>]
and Dred Scott decision, [>], [>]
and 1856 election, [>]–[>]
and Kansas-Nebraska Act, [>], [>]
Lincoln on, [>], [>]
in Lincoln-Douglas debates, [>], [>]–[>]
at Lincoln’s inauguration, [>]
and Lincoln on slavery, [>]–[>]
and Lincoln’s reputation in East, [>]–[>]
nominated for president, [>]
on popular sovereignty, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
in psychobiography of Lincoln, [>]
reelected senator (1858), [>]
as Republican champion, [>]
and Speed, [>]
and Mary Todd, [>]
Douglass, Frederick, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Douglass, H. Ford, [>]
Draft riots, [>]–[>]
Drake, Dr. Daniel, [>]–[>]
“Dream, The” (Byron), [>]
Dred Scott [>]. Sandford, [>], [>],162
Dresser, Charles, [>]
Dubois, Jesse K., [>], [>]
Duncan, Jason, [>]
Dunn, Kyla, [>]
Dylan, Bob, [>]
Dysthymia
insight and creative achievement from, [>]
and letdowns after achievement, [>]
Eagleton, Thomas, [>]
Edwards, Cyrus, [>]
Edwards, Elizabeth Todd, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
son of, [>]
Edwards, Jonathan, [>]
Edwards, Matilda, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Edwards, Ninian, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
son of, [>]
Edwards, Presley Judson, [>], [>]
Elections for president. See Presidential elections
Eli Lilly, public service campaign of, [>], [>] (n.240)
Ellis, Abner, [>], [>]
Ellsworth, Elmer, [>]
Emancipation Proclamation, [>]–[>], [>]
and December 1862 message to Congress, [>]
and Speed’s visit, [>]–[>]
Emerso
n, Ralph Waldo
on introversion, [>]
on Lincoln, [>]
on Thoreau, [>]
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