Amuck (English spelling)

Japanese: アモク(英語表記)amuck
Amuck (English spelling)
Aggressive attacks of mental confusion seen among Malays. Derived from the Malay word amog, the word can be traced back to amuco, meaning a soldier of a suicide squad. When these attacks occur, the patient becomes extremely excited and shows destructive aggression, even attacking people with swords, but eventually collapses from exhaustion and suffers from memory loss. The German Kraepelin was the first to describe amok from a psychiatric perspective (1909), and he considered it to be a symptomatic psychosis associated with epilepsy, malaria, cerebral syphilis, hashish poisoning, or heat stroke, or a type of mania, but in recent years many people consider it to be a kind of hysterical delirium.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
マレー人に見られる攻撃的な精神錯乱の発作。マレー語のamogに由来するが,語源をさかのぼると,決死隊の戦士を意味するアムコamucoから出ているという。この発作が起こると,はげしい興奮状態のもとで破壊的な攻撃性を示し,刀で人に切りかかったりするが,ついには疲労困憊(こんぱい)して倒れ,あとに記憶の欠損が残る。このアモクをはじめて精神医学の立場から記述したのがドイツのクレペリンで(1909),彼はこれを癲癇(てんかん),マラリア,脳梅毒,ハシーシュ中毒,熱射病にともなう症状精神病,あるいは躁病の一型などと考えたが,近年では一種のヒステリー性もうろう状態ととる人が多い。

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