Add to ORKGIn 1985, Alfred Lubran completed a 228-page book entitled Fears Phobias Philias Loves Manias Hates and Hurts (Human Behaviour), a compilation of lists of words accompanied by the briefest of descriptions. The following article excerpts the odder terms from one such list; if Word Ways readers welcome this, other such lists will be published in later issues
Der Wortschatz des Wahnsinns nimmt in der Kultur einen bedeutenden Platz ein, denn er ist nur zum Te...
If there is one thing I think that a person can learn about me by looking at my bookshelves, it is t...
„Socrates said madness was preferable than ‟sober sense‟ because ‟madness comes from the Gods, where...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-287) and index.Frenzy and stupor -- Circling the brain -...
This thesis examines medical and cultural constructions of severe high and low mood states to seek t...
The terms melancholia and mania have their etymologies in classical Greek. Melancholia is derived fr...
Some logologists are word collectors at heart. Over the years, the attention of these collectors has...
underactive and overactive melancholy and mania, for example, were distinguished from the often gend...
When pyromania from 1840-1890 is reviewed, it stands out as a concept that at first found favor in...
Affective disorders were known even in ancient times. Hippocrates used the names of mania and melanc...
The peculiar and hard to define condition of madness covers a range of cases of abnormal behavior th...
Histrionic Personality Disorder is one of the most ambiguous diagnostic categories in psychiatry. Hy...
Throughout literary history, love has been described as a form of madness, which bears a likeness t...
The aim of this study is to make a literature review of the published articles on manias. In this re...
With the rise and development of psychology and the clinics in the nineteenth century, many psycholo...
Der Wortschatz des Wahnsinns nimmt in der Kultur einen bedeutenden Platz ein, denn er ist nur zum Te...
If there is one thing I think that a person can learn about me by looking at my bookshelves, it is t...
„Socrates said madness was preferable than ‟sober sense‟ because ‟madness comes from the Gods, where...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-287) and index.Frenzy and stupor -- Circling the brain -...
This thesis examines medical and cultural constructions of severe high and low mood states to seek t...
The terms melancholia and mania have their etymologies in classical Greek. Melancholia is derived fr...
Some logologists are word collectors at heart. Over the years, the attention of these collectors has...
underactive and overactive melancholy and mania, for example, were distinguished from the often gend...
When pyromania from 1840-1890 is reviewed, it stands out as a concept that at first found favor in...
Affective disorders were known even in ancient times. Hippocrates used the names of mania and melanc...
The peculiar and hard to define condition of madness covers a range of cases of abnormal behavior th...
Histrionic Personality Disorder is one of the most ambiguous diagnostic categories in psychiatry. Hy...
Throughout literary history, love has been described as a form of madness, which bears a likeness t...
The aim of this study is to make a literature review of the published articles on manias. In this re...
With the rise and development of psychology and the clinics in the nineteenth century, many psycholo...
Der Wortschatz des Wahnsinns nimmt in der Kultur einen bedeutenden Platz ein, denn er ist nur zum Te...
If there is one thing I think that a person can learn about me by looking at my bookshelves, it is t...
„Socrates said madness was preferable than ‟sober sense‟ because ‟madness comes from the Gods, where...