Madness

Madness or The Madness may refer to:

Emotion and mental illness

• Anger, an intense emotional response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat
• Insanity, a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns
• Mental disorder, a diagnosis of a behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering or poor ability to function

Art, religion, and philosophy

• Madness, the English name of the goddess of insanity in Euripides' tragedy Herakles
• Divine madness, idiosyncratic behavior linked to sacred pursuits
  • Divine inspiration and Plato's manias, four forms of divine madness (prophetic, cathartic, poetic–musical, erotic) treated in the Phaedrus dialogue

Films and television series

• Madness (1919 film), a German horror film directed by Conrad Veidt
• Madness (1980 film), an Italian crime-drama film directed by Fernando Di Leo
• Madness (1992 film), an Italian giallo film directed by Bruno Mattei
• Madness (2010 film), a Swedish horror film
• "Madness" (Dynasty), a 1983 television episode
• The Madness (TV series), an American conspiracy thriller series

Music

Musicians

• Madness (band), a British ska/pop band formed in 1976
  • The Madness (band), a 1987–1988 incarnation of Madness

Albums

• Madness (All That Remains album) or the title song, 2017
• Madness (Guy Sebastian album) or the title song, 2014
• Madness (Madness album), 1983
• Madness (Sleeping with Sirens album) or the title song, 2015
• Madness (Tony MacAlpine album), 1993
• Madness, by Sarah McLeod, 2010
• The Madness (Art of Anarchy album) or the title song, 2017
• The Madness (The Madness album), 1988

Songs

• "Madness" (Elton John song), 1978
• "Madness" (Ivi Adamou song), 2012
• "Madness" (Muse song), 2012
• "Madness (Is All in the Mind)", by Madness, 1983 (for the Prince Buster song recorded by Madness in 1979, see below)
• "Madness", by Alanis Morissette from Flavors of Entanglement, 2008
• "Madness", by Cascada, 2014
• "Madness", by Battle Beast from Unholy Savior, 2015
• "Madness", by KSI from All Over the Place, 2021
• "Madness", by Mist, 2016
• "Madness", by Moka Only and Sunspot Jonz from the 2000 album Road Life
• "Madness", by Prince Buster from I Feel the Spirit, 1963
• "Madness", by the Rasmus from Into, 2001

Other uses

• Madness (Magic: The Gathering), a keyword in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
• Madness (manga), a 2004 Japanese yaoi and adventure manga series by Kairi Shimotsuki
• MADNESS (Multiresolution Adaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulation), a software environment for numerical simulation
• Michigan Madness, a defunct soccer club based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

See also

• All pages with titles containing Madness
• Mad (disambiguation)
• Descent into Madness (disambiguation)
• Mad Studies
• Mario Madness