This isn’t insanity. From Wikipedia: “In contemporary usage, the term insanity is an informal, un-scientific term denoting “mental instability”; thus, the term insanity defense is the legal definition of mental instability. In medicine, the general term psychosis is used to include the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations in a patient;1 and psychiatric illness is “psychopathology”, not mental insanity.2. Using the idea that insanity involves repetition and expectation misses the real dimensions of insanity, or rather, psychosis. It is a terrible disease.
Visiting England a decade ago we discovered the village church. You could see the wear on the end of pews in a couple where the sheep dogs were tethered during services. Fascinating commentaries from ages past all around.
This isn’t insanity. From Wikipedia: “In contemporary usage, the term insanity is an informal, un-scientific term denoting “mental instability”; thus, the term insanity defense is the legal definition of mental instability. In medicine, the general term psychosis is used to include the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations in a patient;1 and psychiatric illness is “psychopathology”, not mental insanity.2. Using the idea that insanity involves repetition and expectation misses the real dimensions of insanity, or rather, psychosis. It is a terrible disease.