10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOMANIA»
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monomania in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
monomania and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art
'Monomania' explores the cultural prominence of the idée fixe in Western Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. The author revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession.
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Mental Maladies; a Treatise on Insanity
Distinctive characteristics of monomania and lypemania. — Intellectual
monomania. — Reasoning mania of authors, affective monomania of Esquirol. —
Monomania without delirium, or instinctive monomania. — The physiognomy and
leading ...
3
The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
278 monomania enzyme in the functioning of the brain produces an
antidepressant effect, and the MAO inhibitors were therefore the first drugs to be
used in the treatment of depression. monomania A term for a very popular
psychiatric ...
Like all the previous diagnoses we have seen, monomania would have a
relatively short half-life, being dismissed toward the middle of the century and
replaced by the newly redefined hysteria, neurosis, neurasthenia, and ultimately
neurotic ...
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The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 ...
By the time Melville was writing Moby-Dick in 1851, however, insanity in the form
of monomania had become his dominant theme. Although it constituted less than
5 percent of all cases of insanity, monomania was of special interest to writers ...
Edwin Fuller Torrey, 2001
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Handbook of Depression and Anxiety: A Biological Approach
Finding this an unsatisfactory state of affairs, Esquirol substituted the term
monomania for melancholia. Monomania, which became an equivalent of the
term partial insanity, was subdivided as follows: 1. monomania, properly so-
called, which ...
Siegfried Kasper, Johan A. den Boer, J.M. Ad Sitsen, 2003
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Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in ...
"We repeat, when one speaks of homicidal monomania it is not on the basis of a
few rare or poorly observed cases; one can cite examples by the hundreds."114
Furthermore, they welcomed the diagnosis of homicidal monomania because it ...
8
Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom
BETWEEN REASON AND MADNESS: MONOMANIA AND DIPSOMANIA One of
the recurring themes of Victorian culture was the ongoing war between science
on the one hand, and religion and law on the other, regarding the nature and ...
More explicit and distinctive still was the concept of partial insanity promoted by
Pinel's disciple, Esquirol and his own followers, namely that of 'monomania'. The
monomanias comprised a range of partial insanities where the partial aspect ...
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Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary
monomania, affective nante, characterized by emotional deviation; instinctive
monomania, the approximate equivalent of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
When monomania or partial insanity was associated with depressive states,
Esquirol ...
Robert Jean Campbell, 2004
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOMANIA»
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monomania is used in the context of the following news items.
Mack & Mabel, Chichester Festival Theatre, West Sussex, UK
Even so, given Sennett's selfishness and monomania whereby everything had to be about two-reel comic movies, the description of him as ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
Tame Impala: Currents review – one of the year's great heartbreak …
There's a kind of monomania too, bringing to mind Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak. Change is the theme, and the dark, organ-laden opening ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Polaris at Wilson College
This year, to be held on July 20, 21 and 22, the theme is Asia-Media Monomania. Every year, Polaris attracts over 3,500 students across 35 ... «Free Press Journal, Jul 15»
Review: 'Scenes From an Execution' Features Jan Maxwell as a …
Loose-living, convention-flouting and a monster of monomania, she is in a way close kin to the glamorous Hollywood-epic versions of Van ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Review: 'DruidShakespeare: The History Plays' Is Complete With a …
Still, they hold onto it with the poisoned, proprietary monomania of Gollum with his precious piece of jewelry in “The Lord of the Rings.” Photo. «New York Times, Jul 15»
SA's gathering storm of unemployment
Their mindless obsession with sex murders, endless 'I'm OK/You're OK' feel good pieces and monopolistic monomania, has undermined public ... «InDaily, Jul 15»
This euro is destroying the European dream
Just as it's possible to oppose George Osborne's initial deficit monomania on sound, Keynesian grounds without wanting to jettison the pound, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
At the French Institute
In these circumstances you have to be suffering from lean-state monomania to insist on pruning the civil service before you offer to help. «London Review of Books, Jul 15»
The First Film — film review
It's a Holmes case better than many of Holmes's. And I wouldn't swap Wilkinson's dapper monomania for even Sherlock's sure-footed expertise. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
Review: 'Terminator Genisys' – Dull be back
Except for Clarke, who walks an ambiguous line between heroism and sinister monomania, only Big Arnie leaves the slightest impression after ... «News & Observer, Jun 15»
