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Obsession and genius This expansion of the category of madness is aided by discussions of the tenuous line between madness and genius. Alexander Anderson in 1796 allows for a continuum between madness and genius, writing “that we can scarcely say where rationality ends and folly begins. ”61 He goes on to acknowledge that great genius is itself like madness, and both Christ and St. ”63 Thomas Arnold writes in 1782 that “it has been commonly asserted, that persons of great abilities, and genius, are more liable to madness than men of inferior understandings.
We are 26 obsession in our time figure 2. Normal brain from Archives of General Psychiatry (copyright 1992–94 American Medical Association). figure 3. OCD brain from Archives of General Psychiatry (copyright 1992–94 American Medical Association). in the very early days of understanding the neurochemical and electrical activity of the brain. 43 Technologies themselves will spawn new diagnoses44 but in the long run we have seen that diagnoses may in fact change with further technologies. In other words, the seeming fixity and specificity of diseases can be buttressed by information provided by new technologies.
To illustrate the gap between these two explanatory modes let me present several incidents of what we would now call mass hysteria. Mass hysteria can be seen as group obsession in which people are driven to act, and can be aware of their actions, but are unable to stop. On the February 15, 1787, a teenage girl working at a cotton factory in Hodder Bridge, Lancashire, decided to play a trick on her friend. She caught a mouse and dropped it down the other girl’s dress. 6 On the following day, three more girls fell into similar fits and had violent convulsions that also lasted all day.