Post by Andrei Tchentchik on Aug 15, 2019 11:31:50 GMT 2
(.#300).- Collective hysteria.
Collective hysteria.
In psychology, the term collective hysteria1 (the term collective psychosis is also used in literature), applies to phenomena where the same symptoms, hysterical or having the same sudden and uncontrollable characters as hysteria, are felt. by a whole group of people :
Panic reactions felt by crowds, entire populations, for example when news about diseases is received. This kind of collective hysteria is not, strictly speaking, a collective form of hysteria;
Excessive enthusiasm or excessive adulation on the part of a group ;
Situations in which a whole group has the same somatic symptoms, with no organic cause. A case was observed in 1977 in the United States, when 57 members of a school band were caught after a sporting event, headache, nausea, dizziness, fainting ... Finding no organic cause, the researchers concluded a reaction to the heat of which some of these musicians had been victims and which had spread to others by emotional suggestion. The term "collective stress reaction" is now preferred to talk about phenomena of this kind.
George Heuyer, in a communication to the National Academy of Medicine in 1954, hypothesized that UFO waves were the result of collective psychosis. Even today, ufosceptics, in the framework of the sociopsychological model of the UFO phenomenon, consider UFO waves such as the Belgian wave of UFOs3 as psychosocial contagions (even if there are other UFO cases, notably those taking place outside collective outbreaks, which may have a different explanation).
Notes and references
1.↑ Mass Delusions and Hysterias [archive] Robert E. Bartholomew and Erich Goode.
2.↑ Heuyer, G. (1954). Note on collective psychoses. Bulletin of the National
Academy of Medicine, 138, 29-30, 487-490.
3.↑ Van Utrecht, W (1992), Triangles over Belgium - A case of Uforia, Privately
printed: Antwerpen, Hallet, M. (1997). "The so-called Belgian UFO wave ..."
French Review of Parapsychology, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 5-23 and Abrassart, J.-M.
(2006). "The personality inclined to fantasy and its involvement in ufology".
Inforespace, no. 112, p. 27-36.
F I N .
Collective hysteria.
In psychology, the term collective hysteria1 (the term collective psychosis is also used in literature), applies to phenomena where the same symptoms, hysterical or having the same sudden and uncontrollable characters as hysteria, are felt. by a whole group of people :
Panic reactions felt by crowds, entire populations, for example when news about diseases is received. This kind of collective hysteria is not, strictly speaking, a collective form of hysteria;
Excessive enthusiasm or excessive adulation on the part of a group ;
Situations in which a whole group has the same somatic symptoms, with no organic cause. A case was observed in 1977 in the United States, when 57 members of a school band were caught after a sporting event, headache, nausea, dizziness, fainting ... Finding no organic cause, the researchers concluded a reaction to the heat of which some of these musicians had been victims and which had spread to others by emotional suggestion. The term "collective stress reaction" is now preferred to talk about phenomena of this kind.
George Heuyer, in a communication to the National Academy of Medicine in 1954, hypothesized that UFO waves were the result of collective psychosis. Even today, ufosceptics, in the framework of the sociopsychological model of the UFO phenomenon, consider UFO waves such as the Belgian wave of UFOs3 as psychosocial contagions (even if there are other UFO cases, notably those taking place outside collective outbreaks, which may have a different explanation).
Notes and references
1.↑ Mass Delusions and Hysterias [archive] Robert E. Bartholomew and Erich Goode.
2.↑ Heuyer, G. (1954). Note on collective psychoses. Bulletin of the National
Academy of Medicine, 138, 29-30, 487-490.
3.↑ Van Utrecht, W (1992), Triangles over Belgium - A case of Uforia, Privately
printed: Antwerpen, Hallet, M. (1997). "The so-called Belgian UFO wave ..."
French Review of Parapsychology, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 5-23 and Abrassart, J.-M.
(2006). "The personality inclined to fantasy and its involvement in ufology".
Inforespace, no. 112, p. 27-36.
F I N .
