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Egomania (from Greek or Latin ego = I + Greek μανία manía = frenzy; also ego addiction ) is a pathological self-centeredness or self-centeredness. The Duden defines the term as educational for a “pathological self-centeredness”.
The person assigned in this way is called an egomaniac and has the need to always be at the center of all actions and events, or interprets processes in an self-centered manner. Egomania occurs in psychopathology as one of several symptoms of mania in the context of a bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness) and is accompanied by megalomania ("megalomania"). The term egomania is also often used colloquially or in everyday language without the claim of a medical diagnosis .
↑ "egomania: Morbid self-preoccupation or self-centeredness," Benjamin J. Sadock, Harold I. Kaplan, Virginia A. Sadock: Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences / Clinical Psychiatry , Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007, page 277
^ Egomania in duden.de, accessed on January 13, 2013
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