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and Salem girls accused of witchcraft have in common? All may have experienced mass psychogenic events—better known as hysteria. All also appear in Hysterical, a new podcast from Wondery and ...
and Salem girls accused of witchcraft have in common? All may have experienced mass psychogenic events—better known as hysteria. All also appear in Hysterical, a new podcast from Wondery and ...
But the issue of hysteria remains a sensitive one. In Malaysia, cases have involved adolescent girls from the Malay Muslim ethnic majority more than any other group. "There's no denying that mass ...
Thankfully the concept of hysteria has been thoroughly debunked ... Says Dr Loughran: "In the 1930s, there are descriptions of girls being in agony using washable rags that were very hard so ...
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