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 Battle Beast from Unholy Savior, 2015
  • "Madness", by Cascada, 2014
  • "Madness", by KSI from All Over the Place, 2021
  • "Madness", by Mist, 2016
  • "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

  • Mad (disambiguation)
  • Descent into Madness (disambiguation)
  • Mad Studies
  • Mario Madness