mass psychogenic illness
Americannoun
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"This secondary outbreak isn't necessarily mass psychogenic illness, but it involves mass suggestion. When you add in the potential for compensation, I would not be surprised to see tens of thousands of personnel filing reports."
From Salon • Oct. 21, 2021
"When you see mass psychogenic illness, there's usually some stressful underlying situation," he says.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2021
“Think of mass psychogenic illness as the placebo effect in reverse,” medical sociologist Robert Bartholomew told Jack Hitt at Vanity Fair.
From Slate • Jul. 26, 2019
Other researchers and physicians maintain that mass psychogenic illness could explain some, if not all, of the symptoms.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 20, 2018
Cheerleaders frequently come up in case histories of mass psychogenic illness at schools, partly because psychogenic outbreaks often start with someone of high social status.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2012
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