The "Jerusalem Syndrome" -Fantasy and reality a survey of accounts from the 19th century to the end of the second millennium

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 260-271

  Witztum, Eliezer ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DELUSION; FANTASY; HISTORY; ISRAEL; JEW; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION;

DELUSIONS; FANTASY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; ISRAEL; JEWS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0033249912     PISSN: 03337308     EISSN: 26172402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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