Mass hysteria revisited

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-174

  Balaratnasingam, Sivasankaran ^a   Janca, Aleksandar ^b  

^a NorthWestern Mental Health   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mass hysteria; Mass psychogenic illness; Mass sociogenic illness; Outbreaks of multiple unexplained symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMPOWERMENT; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; INFORMATION CENTER; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; VULNERABLE POPULATION; CROWDING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; NOMENCLATURE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYSTERIA; MASS BEHAVIOR; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33646823617     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.yco.0000214343.59872.7a     Document Type: Review

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