Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria or mass hysteria, involves the spread...

may refer to: Psychogenic pain Psychogenic disease Psychogenic amnesia Psychogenic cough, i.e. a habit cough Mass psychogenic illness This disambiguation...

are psychogenic, despite actual symptoms of a physical disorder. Psychology portal Functional symptom Habit cough Mass psychogenic illness Psychogenic amnesia...

Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria, was published; it argued in support of the psychogenic illness hypothesis...

example of fully developed cases of psychogenic movement disorder happening in mass hysteria or mass psychogenic illness, which involves many individuals...

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medical sociologist Robert Bartholomew favors the neutral term mass psychogenic illness over mass hysteria. This is because people respond more favorably to...

Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass hysteria—or mass psychogenic illness (MPI)—rumored to have occurred in or near the village...

assaults were claimed to have occurred in the following months. Mass psychogenic illness (MPI) has been identified as a possible cause of the incidents...

accounts of others with similar symptoms. This phenomenon is known as mass psychogenic illness, where physical symptoms without an organic cause spread to multiple...

original 1973 case report of an episode mass psychogenic illness that was its inspiration. Mass psychogenic illness HELLP syndrome "The Falling". Twitter...

many people simultaneously developing similar symptoms (as in mass psychogenic illness), and the gender difference in prevalence. The Lacanian model accepts...

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Elsagate is a controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that were categorized as "child-friendly", but contained themes inappropriate...

with whom they were close. These public rallies were most popular in the mass campaigns immediately before and after the establishment of the People's...

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), which have been more recently classified as functional seizures, are events resembling an epileptic seizure...

Dissociative fugue (/fjuːɡ/), formerly called a fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a rare psychiatric phenomenon characterized by reversible amnesia...

which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness. Hypochondria is an old concept whose meaning has repeatedly changed over...

However, this is controversial. Tarantism is an expression of mass psychogenic illness documented in Southern Italy since the 11th century. Morgellons...

the period out of their minds. It is speculated to have been a mass psychogenic illness, in which physical symptoms with no known physical cause are observed...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published...

Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion. Jefferson, North Carolina: Macfarland & Company...

Delhi in mid-2001. The entire incident has been described as an example of mass hysteria in India. In May 2001, reports circulated in New Delhi, India concerning...

In Malay ghost beliefs, the Orang Minyak ("oily man" in Malay) is a supernatural creature coated with shiny black grease who abducts young women by night...

and Fortean Times. He is an expert in fields such as mass hysteria and mass psychogenic illness and is frequently consulted by media during current events...

The Varginha UFO incident involves a series of events in 1996 when residents of Varginha, Brazil claimed seeing one or more strange creatures and at least...

scientists to explain a pattern in mass extinctions supposedly observed in the fossil record. According to the Shiva Hypothesis, mass extinctions are not random...

unintentionally titillate their captive audience with lurid descriptions of black mass, blood sacrifice and uninhibited sex Davis, Rebecca (23 April 2013). "Analysis:...

Colombia after playing the game, and were quickly released with a diagnosis of mass hysteria. Kate Knibbs writes that "once the paranormal fad went viral, it...

in the meantime, the students' doctors determined the cause was mass psychogenic illness, and that the media exposure was exacerbating the symptoms. No...