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megalomania a mental illness characterized by delusions of grandeur, power, wealth, etc. megalomania [‚meg·ə·lō′mā·nē·ə] (psychology) The delusion of greatness and omnipotence characterizing certain psychotic reactions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In ``Help Me Help You,'' his megalomania scarcely seems justified, given his own fractured personal life -- his wife (Jane Kaczmarek in a recurring role) has dumped him, and his daughter is working out daddy issues by dating a man Bill's age, a psychology professor working out his own issues of Hoffman worship. Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek, documents him as a hard-drinking TV tyrant who repeatedly rooked his collaborators out of money and credit, manipulated the personal loyalty of the show's fans to insinuate himself with movie and TV players who would have preferred to lock him out of developing Trek projects, and through megalomania and general nuttiness managed to obstruct as much as he created. Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. |
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