monomania

  • 41monomania —   n. insanity on one subject only; obsession to insane degree with one subject.    ♦ monomaniac, n.    ♦ monomaniacal, a …

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  • 42monomania — Partial or illusional insanity. People v Hubert, 119 Cal 216, 51 P 329; Commonwealth v Rogers, 48 Mass (7 Met) 500. Insanity upon one subject …

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  • 43monomania — n. obsession of the mind by one idea or interest. Derivatives: monomaniac n. & adj. monomaniacal adj. Etymology: F monomanie (as MONO , MANIA) …

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  • 44Мономания (Monomania) — навязчивая или чрезмерная увлеченность одной идеей или субъектом. См. также Паранойя. Источник: Медицинский словарь …

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  • 45МОНОМАНИЯ — (monomania) навязчивая или чрезмерная увлеченность одной идеей или субъектом. См. также Паранойя …

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  • 46monomaniac — monomania ► NOUN ▪ obsessive preoccupation with one thing. DERIVATIVES monomaniac noun …

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  • 47Psychosis: Emergence of Concepts —    (See also Folie à Deux; French Chronic Delusional States [from 1909]; Paranoia; Paraphrenia; Positive vs. Negative Symptoms; Schizophrenia: Emergence; Unitary Psychosis.)    In medicine, psychosis can mean (1) loss of contact with reality, in… …

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  • 49Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder —    Physicians and non physicians alike have always recognized the existence of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior. Across the ages, examples are common in religion of praying compulsively or dwelling obsessively on salvation or damnation …

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  • 50Moral insanity — (Latin mania sine delirio; French folie raisonnante or folie lucide raisonnante, monomanie affective; German Moralisches Irresein[1]) is a medical diagnosis first described by the French humanitarian and psychiatrist Philippe Pinel in 1806.[2]… …

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