[ adj ] characterized by or constituting an obsession <adj.all> the obsessional character of his responseobsessive gambling
obsessional \obsessional\ obsessive \obsessive\adj. Persistently and abnormally preoccupied with some unreasonable idea.
Syn: compulsive. [WordNet 1.5]
Director Juzo Itami uses a man's obsessional search for the perfect noodle restaurant as a means to satirize spaghetti westerns, among a great many other things.
But consider the wording of this complaint: keeping 'secret sickness records' sounds mean-spirited and obsessional; but it is only another way of saying that Maynard kept confidential sickness records.