What is Collective Hysteria?

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🗓️ 20 November 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Throughout the history of the world, there have been many cases of what is known as collective hysteria - groups of people, usually young women, who all exhibit the same physical symptoms of non-existent conditions. Is it psychosomatic? Is it group think?

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