manical

Updated: May 13, 2025

Sometimes he fails to get it, and then he becomes an unemployed problem. This type of uncontrolled energy reaches its height in the manical or manic phase of the disease already described as manic depressive insanity. The "manic personality," which need not become insane, is characterized by high energy, vivacious emotions, rapid flow of thought and irrelevant associations.

Abraham Myerson - The Foundations of Personality