An Epidemic of Psychogenic Illness an a Telephone Exchange Building

Epidemic psychogenic illness in an industrial setting--Pennsylvania.

Psychogenic Vomiting: A Clinical Diagnosis Merits Special Attention in Pediatrics

A 2 years and 9 months old boy attended to a gastroenterology clinic of pediatric hospital for investigation of recurrent and intractable vomiting. He had post prandial, non-projectile, non-bilious emesis since past 2 years. Since the onset of illness, he was carried to many doctors and underwent extensive laboratory investigations. Because all of the science lab and imaging work up for etiolog...

Epidemic Hysteria: A Review of the Published Literature

Epidemic hysteria, known by multiple synonymous terms, including mass hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, and mass sociogenic illness, has been defined as a constellation of symptoms suggestive of organic illness, but without an identifiable cause, that occurs between two or more people who share beliefs related to those symptoms (1). Rather than being viewed as a collection of people suffering...

Re: "Epidemic hysteria: a review of the published literature".

Epidemic hysteria, known by multiple synonymous terms, including mass hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, and mass sociogenic illness, has been defined as a constellation of symptoms suggestive of organic illness, but without an identifiable cause, that occurs between two or more people who share beliefs related to those symptoms (1). Rather than being viewed as a collection of people suffering...

Mass psychogenic illness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

’Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness,[1] is “the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic aetiology.”[2] MPI is distinct from other c...