Mass Hysteria

AKA: Mass Psychogenic Illness.
Example(s):
- Mass Hysteria on Fussion Power.
- during Witch Trials.
- ...
See: Moral Panic, Nervous System, Pieter Brueghel The Younger, Dancing Mania, Middle Ages, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Somatic Symptom Disorder.

References

(Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness Retrieved:2024-3-18.
- Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria or mass hysteria, involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no infectious agent responsible for contagion.^[1] It is the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss, or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic causes that are known.

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