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6 unusual facts about Insanity


Charleston Chew

At the end of the verse, Eminem says, "From here on out it's the Chronic 2, Startin today and tomorrow's the new, And I'm still loco enough, To choke you to death wit' a Charleston Chew."

Charley and the Angel

Charley appears ostensibly insane whenever he speaks to, or looks for, the lingering angel who is visible only to him.

Franz Mesmer

To cure an insane person, for example, involved causing a fit of madness.

Halloween Night

After 10 years of life in the asylum, in which he has been bullied by inmates and staff alike for the incident, Chris has now quite literally turned insane and, to prove his innocence, he escapes from the asylum on October 31 to his home, which is now occupied by a new family who are holding a Halloween party.

Jesse Montgomery Mosher

For many years, he served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Insanity, later the Journal of the American Psychiatric Association (JAPA).

Richardis

By 887, Charles appears to have succumbed to fits of madness.


All Star Comics 8

Although the main story featured the Justice Society of America in "Two New Members Win Their Spurs", featuring Doctor Mid-Nite and Starman joining in an incident involving an evil scientist's insanity serum, it is more well known for having the first appearance of Wonder Woman in a back-up story.

Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria

For instance, a collection of monodies by Pietro Antonio Giramo, entitled Hospedale degli Infermi d'amore, was dedicated to Anna in Naples in the mid-seventeenth century (the specific date is unknown); it humorously presented the various forms of insanity caused by love.

Bal des Ardents

In 1392 Charles suffered the first in a lifelong series of attacks of insanity, manifested by an "insatiable fury" at the attempted assassination of the Constable of France and leader of the Marmousets, Olivier de Clisson—carried out by Pierre de Craon but orchestrated by John V, Duke of Brittany.

Bartley Campbell

Campbell was declared insane in September 1886 and died in the State Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, New York on July 30, 1888.

Camillo Agrippa

Agrippa is mentioned in the film "The Princess Bride" during the swordplay scene above the Cliffs of Insanity when Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) and Westley (Cary Elwes) (then dressed as the Dread Pirate Roberts) engage each other in swordplay.

Charles Duchaussois

Upon his return, he recorded the tale of his adventure on 18 magnetic tapes and sent it to Fayard publishing house in December 1970., Insanity, death & excess, it was the decade.

Dead Sexy

Dead Sexy is the third studio album by American rapper Kung Fu Vampire, released on October 31, 2008 by Mad Insanity Records.

Dorothy Otnow Lewis

In 2004 Lewis alleged that British playwright Bryony Lavery's hit Broadway play Frozen, particularly the character of 'Agnetha', a psychiatrist sent to evaluate a serial killer, was based on thematic similarities with her book Guilty by Reason of Insanity and verbatim extracts from a New Yorker article about her by Malcolm Gladwell.

Edward Drummond

The M'Naghten Rules developed by the House of Lords after his trial were to establish the basis for the insanity defence in all common law countries.

George Lippard

The trial took place only two months after Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," a story based on other murder trials employing the insanity defense; Mercer's defense attorney openly acknowledged the "object of ridicule" which an insanity defense had become.

Hans Werner Meyer

In the following years his roles became more and more versatile, comprising diverse characters, such as long distance runner Dieter Baumann in “Ich will laufen – der Fall Dieter Baumann” (English: “I want to run – the case of Dieter Baumann” or the son of a Prussian Officer, Albrecht Sterenberg, who slowly develops insanity in the historical two-part TV production “Der weiße Afrikaner” (English: The white African”).

Henry William Weber

He was "afflicted with partial insanity," especially under the influence of strong drinks, to which he was occasionally addicted (Scott, Journal, 1890, i. 149).

Insanity Later

Insanity Later is the first full length album from the band Folly, and was released on Triple Crown Records.

Insanity Wave

Insanity Wave is a power pop band based in Madrid, Spain with a style usually defined as “snotty power pop” or “crazy guitar pop”.

James Smetham

Smetham was a devout Methodist, and after a mental breakdown in 1857, the second half of his life was marked by a growing religious mania and eventual insanity.

M'Naghten rules

The House of Lords asked a panel of judges, presided over by Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a series of hypothetical questions about the defence of insanity.

McLean County Courthouse and Square

During their early years the buildings, including the Dewenters building served as offices for prominent Bloomington doctors and lawyers, including William Ormes and Leonard Swett, who pioneered the insanity defense for accused criminals.

Moral insanity

The physician James Cowles Prichard first used the phrase to describe a mental disorder in 1835 in his Treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind.

Later, Maudsley discussed moral insanity as a sign of poor moral willpower or moral sense.

Natalie Natalia

Natalie Natalia is a novel by Nicholas Mosley first published in 1971 about a middle-aged British MP who, while seemingly on the brink of insanity, conducts an adulterous affair with the wife of a colleague.

Nunhead Cemetery

The cemetery is the setting for the Victorian poet Charlotte Mew's exploration of death, insanity and social alienation In Nunhead Cemetery and is the setting for Maurice Riordan's final poem, The January Birds in The Holy a d, his 2007 collection.

Operation Demetrius

According to journalist Kevin Myers: "Insanity seized the city. Hundreds of vehicles were hijacked and factories were burnt. Loyalist and IRA gunmen were everywhere".

Paraphrenia

The term paraphrenia was originally popularized by Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum in 1863 to describe the tendency of certain psychiatric disorders to occur during certain transitional periods in life (describing paraphrenia hebetica as the insanity of the adolescence and paraphrenia senilis as the insanity of the elders.

Peter Woodcock

Woodcock was apprehended for the murders in 1957, found not guilty by reason of insanity, and placed in Oak Ridge, an Ontario psychiatric facility located in Penetanguishene.

Red Panda Adventures

William Lyon Mackenzie King: The Prime Minister of Canada, "Willy" was hit with a prototype German insanity ray, reducing his intelligence to that of a five-year-old.

Shane Stevens

In Stevens' novel By Reason of Insanity the serial killer character, Thomas Bishop, believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed in 1960 for various crimes including rape and kidnapping.

Stephen Stanko

Stanko was convicted, after a failed insanity defense, of strangling his girlfriend Laura Ling, 43, the librarian who lived with him outside Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, shooting Henry Lee Turner, 74, and sexually assaulting and stabbing Ling's teenage daughter, who survived and made the 911 call for help.

Sture Murders

When Erik XIV arrived at Uppsala on 16 May 1567, according to Robert Nisbet Bain he was "in a condition of incipient insanity".

Takeo Saeki

In this film he discovers that his wife, Kayako was having an affair with his son's teacher, Shunsuke Kobayashi, and this is where his insanity begins, because he was already happily married to Kayako and he had a decent job and he had a son which he considered his and his alone.

Telegraph Island

In an episode of the fantasy television show Warehouse 13, "Around the Bend", aired on the Syfy Channel on 10 August 2010, a fictional military telegraph from the island is recognised by a character as causing "violent insanity".

Terence Hawkins

It tells the story of Achilles, a monstrous hero, who turns vain and selfish, cruel and noble; of Paris, weak and consumed by lust for his stolen bride; of Agamemnon, driven nearly to insanity by the voices of the gods; and of Trojans and Achaeans, the warriors and the peasants caught up in the conflict, their families torn apart by a decade-long war.

The Eden Express

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity (ISBN 1-58322-543-9) is a 1975 book by Mark Vonnegut, son of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, about Mark's experiences in the late 1960s and his major psychotic breakdown and recovery.

The Insanity of Normality: Understanding Human Destructiveness

The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness is a book about the root causes of cruelty and violence written by psychoanalyst Arno Gruen.

Théophile Archambault

Archambault spoke fluent English, and in 1840 translated William Charles Ellis' "Treatise on the Nature, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of Insanity" into French.

Tony Little

Bruce Springsteen's 1995-97 Ghost of Tom Joad Tour, contained the song "Sell It and They Will Come", a tribute to the insanity of late-night infomercials.

Umberto Ammaturo

In 1982, Ammaturo and Maresca were arrested and charged with killing the forensic psychiatrist Aldo Semerari who had helped Ammaturo in previous years to escape prison feigning insanity.

Unmaad

Unmaad derived from Devanagari उन्माद (pronounced as Unmād) stands for lunacy, hysteria, frenzy, mania, insanity or craze.

Utica Psychiatric Center

Dr. Brigham established a print shop at the asylum, where he published the American Journal of Insanity (later known as the American Journal of Psychiatry).


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