adj. the condition of someone or something which has gone overboard into violent and destructive behavior. It is a state of losing control mentally and emotionally. Derived from the word berserker which refers to fierce Norse warriors wearing bearskins during battle.
BERSERK: "Far from being ordinary, it must have been too maddening of a problem in order for a person to go berserk!"
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "BERSERK," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 7, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/berserk/ (accessed September 29, 2022).
[…] In our nice, ordered and placidly rent-seeking Western society we seem to have forgotten the natural and primitive ability to go berserk. […]