moral insanity

historic mental disorder consisting of abnormal emotions and behaviours without psychosis
MedicalCondition mental_disorder Q955922
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moral insanity

Summary

moral insanity is a mental disorder[1]. It draws 48 Wikipedia views per month (mental_disorder category, ranking #53 of 60).[2]

Key Facts

  • moral insanity is credited with the discovery of James Cowles Prichard[3].
  • moral insanity's instance of is recorded as mental disorder[4].
  • moral insanity's country of origin is recorded as England[5].
  • +1835-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of moral insanity[6].
  • moral insanity's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03x_ggk[7].
  • moral insanity's facet of is recorded as insanity defense[8].
  • moral insanity's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • moral insanity's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • moral insanity's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • moral insanity's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/moral-insanity[12].
  • moral insanity's used by is recorded as Henry Maudsley[13].
  • moral insanity's used by is recorded as Daniel Hack Tuke[14].
  • moral insanity's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779298791[15].
  • moral insanity's Lex ID is recorded as moral_insanity[16].

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Works and Contributions

moral insanity is credited with the discovery of James Cowles Prichard[3].

Why It Matters

moral insanity draws 48 Wikipedia views per month (mental_disorder category, ranking #53 of 60).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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