Tarantism, dancing mania and demonopathy: the anthro-political aspects of 'mass psychogenic illness'.

This study questions the widely held assumption that the phenomenon known as mass psychogenic illness (MPI) exists per se in nature as a psychiatric disorder. Most MPI studies are problematical, being descriptive, retrospective investigations of specific incidents which conform to a set of pre-exist...

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Main Author: Bartholomew, R.E.
Format: Article
Published: 1994
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/1453/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8084927
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