Psychosomania
A neurological version of psychosification, akin to Neuromania applied to psychosis. Psychosomania explains all unusual beliefs, spiritual experiences, and heterodox political views as brain dysfunctions—dopamine imbalances, faulty connectivity, or structural abnormalities. It reduces spiritual awakenings to “temporal lobe seizures,” political radicalism to “serotonin dysregulation,” and religious visions to “hyperactive salience networks.” Followers demand brain scans as proof of authenticity. Critics argue it commits the mereological fallacy: confusing necessary conditions (brains are involved) with sufficient explanations (meaning is reduced to neurons). Psychosomania is a secular exorcism, pathologizing the transcendent.
Psychosomania Example: “The psychosomaniac dismissed the mystic’s years of disciplined meditation as ‘a dopaminergic loop.’ She ignored the rich philosophical tradition behind the experience, reducing it to a neurotransmitter.”
Psychosomania by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal June 5, 2026
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