ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates after discarding the medical metaphor to define and treat so-called mania, the time is ripe to inculcate manic ectasy as a preventative remedy against schizophrenia. To establish the thesis that by learning the balanced language of manic-depressive switching between rationality and irrationality people may control their fears from the supernatural, the chapter considers the impact of metaphorical changes on treatment strategies. Although in both cases depression and mania seem to be functionally related, in the first case the manic depression metacode would be conceived as a natural, temporary "rest" state from the ideal striving toward joyful-ecstatic living. The second metacode of depressive mania would typically be used by societies that fail or refuse to provide their people with institutionalized means for expressing their manic needs, in order to stress that mania is merely a temporary "escape" from the real predominant state of depression.
