Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: The National Narrative of Monomania

  • “Something monomanical”: obsession and the unity of effect

    Jack RosserHerefordshire, England, United Kingdom The concept of monomania first gathered popularity in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century; the term “referred to a type of mental disorder in which a person would have fixed, and often grandiose, ideas that did not correspond to reality.”1 These ideas would be “confined to a single…