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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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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