Rage

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Madness , formerly also called "brain rage", formerly also Delirium furibundum sive furiosum and Furor maniacus , is an outdated medical term for a mental disorder , usually in the sense of a mania , which is characterized by extreme excitement and its subsequent, often aggressively colored discharge. A maddened person used to be referred to as "maddened".

An attack of rage , formerly also known as delirium hystericum in the case of a " hysterical " structure , is an equally outdated medical term for a phase of extremely increased motor restlessness. It is still used in everyday speech in the sense of a sudden discharge of particularly strong arousal with a tendency to damage property, often related to the behavior ( outburst of anger ) of children .

Definitions

According to Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), language has traditionally distinguished mere mental illnesses from actual madness as an incomprehensible and incomprehensible behavior. For these incomprehensible emotional expressions, terms such as u. a. senseless romping alongside confusion and incomprehensible affect . They were in the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. summarized under the term mental illness . In older psychiatry, the term was used for a disease unit with the greatest excitement ( raptus ). Sometimes it was used as a synonym for mania , sometimes as a term for the excitement in hysteria. Today the colloquial meaning already mentioned above has been preserved. The strongest senseless excitement, which, as mentioned above, was previously referred to as rage, is also known as a symptom of catatonia . Madness is also defined as the extreme urge to move and violent actions associated with clouding of consciousness , which in mania gravis - also synonymous for this - u. a. occurs in psychosis. The definition by Pschyrembel (1964) is also based on this meaning.

See also

literature

  • Uwe Henrik Peters (Ed.): Lexicon of psychiatry, psychotherapy, medical psychology. 6th edition. Elsevier, Urban & Fischer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-437-15061-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rage . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 19, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p.  583 .
  2. ↑ Tantrums in Children - How Parents Stay Calm. www.adhs-hyperaktivitaet.de, June 1, 2003, accessed on August 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 5 tips if your child has a fit of rage. www.netpapa.de, 2019, accessed on August 29, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Karl Jaspers : General Psychopathology. 9th edition, Springer, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-540-03340-8 , (a) on the keyword mental and emotional illness: 4th part: The conception of the totality of mental life; § 2 The basic distinctions in the total area of ​​mental life, II. Essential differences d) Mental illnesses and mental illnesses (natural and schizophrenic mental life). Page 483 f .; (b) on the subject of catatonia: page 505.
  5. ↑ Oswald Bumke : Textbook of mental illnesses . 6th edition, Verlag JF Bergmann, Munich 1944; On the conceptual and research history of mental illness: Pages 1–4.
  6. ^ Walter Marle : Basic concepts of clinical medicine. An introduction and synthetic terminology at the same time. 2nd edition, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1932, page 338.
  7. ↑ Uwe Henrik Peters : Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology . 3rd edition, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1984; Lexicon keyword rage, page 565.
  8. ^ Herbert Volkmann (ed.): Guttmanns medical terminology . Derivation and explanation of the most common technical terms of all branches of medicine and their auxiliary sciences. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1939.
  9. ^ Willibald Pschyrembel : Pschyrembel. Clinical Dictionary. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1964; on the lexicon keyword "organic diseases": p. 880.