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Formerly used as a nonspecific term for any type of "madness."
Currently used as a suffix to indicate a morbid preoccupation with some kind of
idea or activity, and/or a compulsive need to behave in some deviant way.
Some examples are as follows:
- egomania - Pathological preoccupation with self.
- erotomania - The delusion that one is loved by a particular person.
- kleptomania - Compulsion to steal.
- megalomania - Grandiose delusions of power, wealty, or fame.
- monomania - Pathological preoccupation with one subject.
- necromania - Pathological preoccupation with dead bodies.
- nymphomania - Abnormal and excessive need or desire in the woman for
sexual intercourse; see satyriasis.
- pyromania - Compulsion to set fires; an impulse control disorder.
- trichotillomania - Compulsion to pull one's own hair out; an impulse
disorder.
Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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