Such conditions might have been otherwise labeled at the time as forms of moral insanity.

However, Esquirol considered moral insanity to be simply one form of monomania.

Moral insanity was for disorders that only seemed to arise from a person's feelings and habits, not their intellect.

This meant that the symptoms of moral insanity could increase, causing a degeneration into monomania.

This was influential in leading to the concept of moral insanity, which became an accepted diagnosis through the second half of the 19th century.

Thou shalt perish by the moral insanity of thy children!"

"On the surface, monomania can thus appear even more circumscribed a form of derangement than moral insanity."

In the late 19th century, Koch referred to "psychopathic inferiority" as a new term for moral insanity.

(A diagnosis of "moral insanity" was a common practice for adulterous women at the time.)

He was one of the earliest to raise in a British court the plea of moral insanity (unsuccessfully).

Both moral insanity and monomania were depicted in Victorian novels and movies of the time.

Pyromania thought in the 1800s to be a concept on moral insanity and moral treatment, has not been categorized under impulse control disorders.

Later, Maudsley discussed moral insanity as a sign of poor moral willpower or moral sense.

His treatise on insanity was remarkable for his advanced views on "moral insanity."

Also known as sociopathy or antisocial personality disorder, this psychopathic lack of guilt used to be termed 'moral insanity'.

Emil Kraepelin included a section on moral insanity in his psychiatric classification scheme but by 1904 was referring to psychopathic conditions.

James Cowles Prichard advanced a similar concept he called moral insanity, which would be used to diagnose patients for some decades.

The psychiatrist Koch sought to make the moral insanity concept more scientific and suggested in 1891 the phrase 'psychopathic inferiority' (later personality) be used instead.

His scientific activities where very versatile ranging from moral insanity and dementia to epilepsy, progressive paralysis and Huntington's disease.

Several historians have entirely discredited the notion that the diagnostic category of moral insanity was a direct forerunner of psychopathic disorder.

Towards the turn of the 20th century, Henry Maudsley had begun writing about the "moral imbecile", "moral insanity" and "criminal psychosis".

Phrenology was closely related to the moral insanity though process in that it was still believed that criminality could be scientifically studied and detected.

Moral insanity referred to a type of mental disorder consisting of abnormal emotions and behaviours in the apparent absence of intellectual impairments, delusions or hallucinations.

The concept of moral insanity was indebted to the work of physician Philippe Pinel, which was acknowledged by Prichard.

The term "moral insanity" became popular in the mid-nineteenth century, and was widely used in the U.S. and in England to describe incorrigible criminals.