Thus began one of the most maniacaland terrible drunks of my life.
Because his will is enthralled in the direst bondage conceivable--his manhood is in the dust, and a demon sits in the chariot of his soul, lashing the fiery steeds of passion to maniacal madness.
Often have I pressed my hands tightly over my mouth, fearing that I would scream, and as often would a low groan sound in my blistered throat, the pent up echo of a long maniacal wail.
The lives of its votaries provided examples of almost every conceivable kind of self-torture or semi-maniacal behaviour.
Peter the Hermit--the former acting mainly from political motives; the latter from a spirit of sheer fanaticism-- succeeded in rousing Europe to a maniacal desire for the recovery of the Holy Land.
The same association is seen in less extreme cases, and one of the commonest features in the conversation of acutely maniacal women is the intermingling of erotic and religious ideas.
I would go a hundred miles to hear that weird, meaningless, melancholy, maniacal laughter of the loon, or great northern diver, as the dusk comes down over some lonely lake in the wilderness of the far North.
From the analysis of the maniacal delusion of being watched we concluded that in the ego there is really an agent which continually watches, criticizes and compares the other part of the ego and thus opposes it.
She had, as a matter of fact, first laid these maniacal imputations at the door of a woman, whom we may consider as having played the part of a mother-substitute in her psychic life.
This is explained by their relation to the unconscious, which is represented by the maniacal idea or the compulsion idea, and held down by whichever is effective.
The maniacal idea as well as the compulsion idea cannot be assailed by logical arguments or actual experience.
Under analysis in the maniacal delusion of being watched it reveals its origin in the influence of parents, tutors and social environment and in the identification of the ego with certain of these model individuals.
Only after the second meeting did she progress to the point of diverting this maniacal idea from the woman and of transferring it to the man.
Since we are so near the end you certainly will be glad to hear the psychoanalytic explanation of a maniacal idea.
He knew the faces of men, and in the blazing eyes of this man he read a maniacal fury.
I believe he is a desperate character; his maniacal behavior last night seems to leave no room for doubt in that respect.
For a moment his horrid white-rimmed eyes glared searchingly into her face, immediately following which he burst into maniacal laughter.
He saw that neither threats nor pleas would avail him and so he prepared to fight as a cornered rat fights for its life with all the maniacal rage, cunning, and ferocity that the first law of nature imparts to many beasts.
Depression of the manic-depressive variety, therefore, may either precede or follow upon an attack of maniacal excitement, or it may be the chief and only obvious symptom of the disease and may recur again and again.
When insanity appears it is met with in all degrees varying from slight mental dulness up to complete dementia, and from mere moral perversion up to the most intense form of maniacal excitement.
The chief symptoms of the maniacal attacks are the great motor restlessness and excitement, which are worst during the night time.
The dye applied to skin and hair gave him a grotesque, almostmaniacal aspect.
You bet he was; maniacal obsession, a classic, most beautiful case.
From the yielding, globular nest at the tunnel's end it fixed maniacal eyes once more upon the threads of its snare, seen down the length of the passage-way.
In stark, maniacal hatred of all other life they would at least equal the huge gray horror which had begot them.
He was, in fact, very near the spot he had left the night before in that maniacal ride on the back of a flying beetle.
It is true that there were periods of maniacal depression, and these were not always religious ones.
She looked up, expecting to see the maniacal light of murder in the eyes above her.
And during it the priestess stood with poised knife above Tarzan, her eyes fixed in horror upon the maniacal thing that was dealing out death and destruction to her votaries.
To keep this maniacal worship, he has banned citizens from acquiring knowledge; limiting their scholastic learning to the monasteries and to the Blaisaman, and limiting only this to his own supporters' children.
Professor Ariel had cast everything overboard with maniacal celerity, and now, clad only in his undershirt and trousers, was hacking at the trailing ladder to cut that off.
He had literally sunk his all in it with maniacal satisfaction, and had only a few thousands left, barely enough to pay expenses for three months.
It is by a succession of miracles that the members of his maniacal craft usually do dodge death and destruction.
Hilma and Annixter conferred together without lowering their voices, at her very elbow, while she looked vacantly at the floor, drawing one hand over the other in a persistent, maniacal gesture.
In the maniacal conditions, the rapidity of the pulse, which is sometimes quite marked, must probably be explained in the same way, as due to the mental excitement under which the patient is laboring.
Maniacal patients sometimes inflict what would normally be extremely severe pain on themselves by burning or mutilation without any manifestation of pain.
Sleep is produced only by the use of the drug in large doses, which also tend to excite delirium, sometimes even reaching to the height of maniacal fury.
The first of these two varieties of wakefulness is encountered in cases of violentmaniacal excitement where the disorder is comparatively recent, and the bodily vigor has not been depressed by long continued disease.
This method of treatment is particularly useful in maniacal forms of insanity, and in certain cases of melancholia--especially those in which the skin is dry and the secretions are disordered.
Kick and squirm as I would, I could neither turn toward my antagonist nor free myself from his maniacal grasp.
His eyes rolled in a maniacal frenzy, and the muscles of his face twitched convulsively.
Had not a thousand invisible arms beckoned him cajolingly and irresistibly along this maniacal route, and let him fight his way through snow and ice, till he was ready to faint from exhaustion?
It leads from epilepsy to the periodic diseases, especially the maniacal depressive insanity, the paranoia which develops late, and finally to states of idiocy which cover the whole life.
The brain cells which are too easily excited perhaps in maniacal exultation would respond too slowly in a melancholic depression.
We may find psychotherapeutic schemes by which epilepsy or maniacal depressive insanity or traumatic neuroses may become accessible.
Sometimes, during the earlier stages especially, there may be maniacal paroxysms or epileptic fits.
Instead of the usual epileptic fit, the patient may have a violent maniacal attack (masked epilepsy, epileptic equivalent, psychic form of epilepsy).
Epileptics who suffer from both petit and grand mal attacks are specially liable to maniacal attacks.
Now and then, in place of stupor, great restlessness, and even a maniacal condition, is developed.
In one case, marked by excruciating pain in the head and maniacal delirium, sixty drops of laudanum were given every hour until nearly half an ounce had been taken within eight hours (Strong).
The peculiarities of the delirium, amounting sometimes to maniacal excitement, which attends some cases of relapsing fever, has been fully described.
Delirium generally first makes its appearance some time in the course of the second week, but occasionally the invasion of the disease is marked by maniacal excitement.
