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MANIA. - It is a mental illness belonging to "manic-depressive psychosis."

In the history of psychiatry the term has had various meanings, some of which are still common in everyday language.

Already in the Homeric writings mania is hinted at, and it occurs more often in Hippocrates (460-335 B.C.), in whom it coincides more or less with the modern concept of paranoid and paranoiac syndromes. Much later mania became synonymous with obsessive idea, at other times even with madness, thus encompassing all or part of the mental illnesses. It was in the last decades of the past century that its current meaning and its classification together with melancholia among the manic-depressive psychoses became established.

Luisandro Canestrini

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), coll. 1963–1964.

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Canestrini, Luisandro. “Mania.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, coll. 1963–1964. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/mania.

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Canestrini, Luisandro. “Mania.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 1963–1964. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/mania.

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@incollection{ec7_mania,
  author    = {Canestrini, Luisandro},
  title     = {Mania},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VII},
  pages     = {1963--1964},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/mania}
}

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