The document lists 50 different types of compulsion or mania, including suicidal mania, homicidal mania, kleptomania, bibliomania, and graphomania. It provides a brief definition for each type of compulsion.
The document lists 50 different types of compulsion or mania, including suicidal mania, homicidal mania, kleptomania, bibliomania, and graphomania. It provides a brief definition for each type of compulsion.
The document lists 50 different types of compulsion or mania, including suicidal mania, homicidal mania, kleptomania, bibliomania, and graphomania. It provides a brief definition for each type of compulsion.
The document lists 50 different types of compulsion or mania, including suicidal mania, homicidal mania, kleptomania, bibliomania, and graphomania. It provides a brief definition for each type of compulsion.
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Compulsion
1. Suicidal Mania the impulse to take one’s life
2. Homicidal Mania the impulse to kill 3. Dipsomania the impulse to drink liquor 4. Megalomania the impulse to a mass giant fame or power 5. Kleptomania the impulse to steal 6. Pyromania the impulse to set things on fire 7. Arithmomania the impulse to count everything 8. Ablutomania Mania for washing oneself 9. Aboulomania Pathological indecisiveness 10. Agromania Intense desire to be in open spaces 11. Andromania Nymphomania 12. Anglomania Craze or obsession with England and the English 13. Anthomania Obsession with flowers 14. Aphrodisiomania Abnormal sexual interest 15. Balletomania Abnormal fondness for ballet 16. Bibliomania Craze for books or reading 17. Bruxomania Compulsion for grinding teeth 18. Cacodemomania Pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit 19. Catapedamania Obsession with jumping from high places 20. Chinamania Obsession with collecting china 21. Choreomania Dancing mania or frenzy 22. Clinomania Excessive desire to stay in bed 23. Copromania Obsession with feces 24. Cytheromania Nymphomania 25. Dacnomania Obsession with killing 26. Demonomania Pathological belief that one is possessed by demons 27. Dinomania Mania for dancing 28. Dipsomania Abnormal craving for alcohol 29. Discomania Obsession for disco music 30. Doramania Obsession with owning furs 31. Doromania Obsession with giving gifts 32. Drapetomania Intense desire to run away from home 33. Dromomania Compulsive longing for travel 34. Ecdemomania Abnormal compulsion for wandering 35. Egomania Irrational self-centered attitude or self-worship 36. Eleutheromania Manic desire for freedom 37. Entheomania Abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired 38. Enosimania Pathological belief that one has sinned 39. Empleomania Mania for holding public office 40. Epomania Craze for writing epics 41. Ergasiomania Excessive desire to work 42. Erotomania Abnormally powerful sex drive 43. Etheromania Craving for ether 44. Ethnomania Obsessive devotion to one's own people 45. Eulogomania Obsessive craze for eulogies 46. Flagellomania Abnormal enthusiasm for flogging 47. Florimania Craze for flowers 48. Francomania Craze or obsession with France and the French 49. Gamomania Obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals 50. Graphomania Obsession with writing
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