Examples of hysteria in the following topics:
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- Hysteria is a diagnostic label applied to a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses.
- The term also occurs in the phrase mass hysteria to describe mass public near-panic reactions.
- Hysteria is often associated with movements like the Salem Witch Trials, the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and Satanic ritual abuse, where it is better understood through the related sociological term of moral panic.
- Mass hysterias can also exhibit themselves in the sudden onset of psychogenic illnesses, or illnesses that are the result of psychology and not an external source (e.g., like a pollutant or infectious agent).
- A recent example of psychogenic illness resulting from mass hysteria occurred in Jilin, China in 2009 when hundreds of workers at an acrylic yarn factory began to fall ill.Doctors in China determined that, for most of those who fell ill, there were no physical indications of poisoning, which is what the workers claimed caused the illness.
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- Before the hysteria ended, over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused who were not formally pursued by the authorities.
- The episode is one of the most famous cases of mass hysteria, and has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process.
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- Under the Red Scare hysteria at the time of McCarthyism, witnesses who refused to answer the questions were accused as "fifth amendment communists".
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- These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur and some moral panics have historically been fueled by religious missions, governmental campaigns, and scientific mobilizing against minority groups that used media outlets to further their claims), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
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- The Salem witch trials of 1692 were one of the earliest examples of mass hysteria in the country.
- The episode is one of the colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria.
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- Much of Freud's theory was based on his investigations of patients suffering from "hysteria" and neurosis.
- Hysteria was an ancient diagnosis that was primarily used for women with a wide variety of symptoms, including physical symptoms and emotional disturbances with no apparent physical cause.
- s "hysteria," which Freud implied was a result of the resentment she felt over her father's real and physical illness that later led to his death.
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- The diagnosis of somatic symptom disorders is historically rooted in the late 18th century diagnosis of "hysteria," which is now considered obsolete.
- In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association replaced the diagnosis of hysteria in the DSM with more precisely defined conditions and symptoms, such as somatization disorder.
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- The witch trials in the early modern period were a period of witch hunts between the 15th and 18th centuries, when across early modern Europe and to some extent in the European colonies in North America, there was a widespread hysteria that malevolent Satanic witches were operating as an organized threat to Christendom.
- The 1692 Salem witch trials were a brief outburst of witch hysteria in the New World at a time when the practice was already waning in Europe.
- Demonstrate how natural events and pandemics contributed to the hysteria surrounding the witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries
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- Additionally, the period was characterized by increased fear and blame, including a rise in anti-Semitism and hysteria over witchcraft.
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- Anti-German hysteria in the U.S. during World War I led to restrictions
on speaking German and internment.