Insanity
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- Note
- Insanity, madness, lunacy, and craziness are behaviors performed by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity can manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or to other people. Conceptually, mental insanity also is associated with the biological phenomenon of contagion (that mental illness is infectious) as in the case of copycat suicides. In contemporary usage, the term insanity is an informal, un-scientific term denoting "mental instability"; thus, the term insanity defense is the legal definition of mental instability. In medicine, the general term psychosis is used to include the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations in a patient; and psychiatric illness is "psychopathology", not mental insanity.
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The Rake’s Progress (Der Weg des Liederlichen) 8. Platte
U.r.: Pl. 8 U.l.: W. Hogarth...
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Image: Winckelmann-Museum Stendal - CC BY-NC-SA -
Der Nachtmahr
Auf einem schmalen, niedrigen...
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Image: Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum - RR-F -
Die wahnsinnige Kate
Meeresstrand bei Unwetter und...
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Image: Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum - RR-F
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