Monomania

Monomania
Portrait of a woman titled Monomania of Envy by Théodore Géricault
SpecialtyPsychiatry

In 19th-century psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, "one", and mania, meaning "madness" or "frenzy") was a form of partial insanity conceived as single psychological obsession in an otherwise sound mind.:155:26