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  2. Lunatic - Wikipedia

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    Lunatic is a term referring to a person who is seen as mentally ill, dangerous, foolish, [1] [2] or crazy—conditions once attributed to "lunacy". The word derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck".

  3. Lunacy - Wikipedia

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    Lunacy may refer to: Lunacy, the condition suffered by a lunatic, now used only informally; Lunacy, a 2005 Jan Švankmajer film; Lunacy, a video game for the Sega ...

  4. Insanity - Wikipedia

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    Insanity, madness, lunacy, and craziness are behaviors caused by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity can manifest as violations of societal norms , including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or to other people.

  5. Lunatic asylum - Wikipedia

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    The Lunacy Act 1845 was an important landmark in the treatment of the mentally ill, as it explicitly changed the status of mentally ill people to patients who required treatment. The Act created the Lunacy Commission , headed by Lord Shaftesbury , to focus on lunacy legislation reform. [ 35 ]

  6. Lunatic (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Lunatic" is a commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish, unpredictable; a condition once called lunacy. Lunatic may also refer to: Lunatic (Booba album), 2010; Lunatic (Kongos album), 2012/14; Lunatic (group), a French hip-hop duo, consisted of Ali and Booba; Lunatic, a 2009 novel by Ted Dekker

  7. Lunar effect - Wikipedia

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    Moonrise by the Sea.Biologists as well as artists and poets have long thought about the Moon's influence on living creatures. The lunar effect is a purported correlation between specific stages of the roughly 29.5-day lunar cycle and behavior and physiological changes in living beings on Earth, including humans.

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  9. Psychiatric hospital - Wikipedia

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    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, psychiatric institutions ceased using terms such as "madness", "lunacy" or "insanity", which assumed a unitary psychosis, and began instead splitting into numerous mental diseases, including catatonia, melancholia, and dementia praecox, which is now known as schizophrenia. [15]