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emotional insanity — The species of mental aberration produced by a violent excitement of the emotions or passions, though the reasoning faculties may remain unimpaired. A passion, effecting for a space of time complete derangement of accused s intellect, or an… … Black's law dictionary
emotional insanity — The species of mental aberration produced by a violent excitement of the emotions or passions, though the reasoning faculties may remain unimpaired. A passion, effecting for a space of time complete derangement of accused s intellect, or an… … Black's law dictionary
emotional insanity — noun : psychopathic personality … Useful english dictionary
insanity — insanity, lunacy, psychosis, mania, dementia are the leading general terms denoting serious mental disorder. Insanity as a technical term belongs to law rather than to medicine. It is used to cover a wide variety of mental disorders, all of which … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Insanity — • The dividing line between sanity and insanity, like the line that distinguishes a man of average height from a tall man, can be described only in terms of a moral estimate Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Insanity Insanity … Catholic encyclopedia
insanity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of mental soundness Nouns 1. insanity, lunacy, derangement, craziness, feeblemindedness; abnormal behavior, pathology; affective disorder; nervous breakdown; antisocial, compulsive, cyclothymic,… … English dictionary for students
insanity — Synonyms and related words: aberration, absurdity, alienation, amentia, arrested development, asininity, backwardness, battiness, blithering idiocy, brain disease, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crack up, crackpottedness, crankiness,… … Moby Thesaurus
Moral insanity — (insanity without hallucinations or delusions). See Prichard, James Cowles (1835). Distinction between momentary symptom picture and underlying disease process in psychiatry (1844). To some extent, physicians have always been aware that the … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
mania transitoria — Emotional insanity; that is, the case of one in the possession of his ordinary reasoning faculties, who allows his passions to convert him into a temporary maniac. Mutual Life Ins. Co. v Terry (US) 15 Wall 580, 21 L Ed 236, 239 … Ballentine's law dictionary
Psychosis: 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… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
