=Partial Intellectual Mania=, or =Monomania=, also called =Melancholia=,
is a form of the disease in which the patient becomes possessed of some
single notion, contradictory alike to common-sense and his own
experience.
=General Moral Mania.=--This is a morbid perversion of the natural
feelings, affections, inclinations, temper, habits, moral dispositions,
and natural impulses, without any remarkable disorder or defect of the
intellect, or knowing and reasoning faculties, and particularly without
any insane illusion or hallucination. It is often difficult to
distinguish this form of mania from the moral depravity which we
associate with the criminal classes.
=Partial Moral Mania--Paranoia--Delusional Insanity.=--In this form one
or two only of the moral powers are perverted. Delusions are always
present, and very frequently are those of persecution. The patient's
conduct is dominated by his delusion; thus murder and suicide may be
committed. There are several forms:
_Kleptomania_, a propensity to theft; common in women in easy
circumstances. _Dipsomania_, or _Oinomania_, an insatiable desire for
drink. _Morphinomania_, a craving for morphine or its preparations.
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