From experience: Epidemic syncope in jazz bands—logistic aspects of an investigation

Bebbington, Emily; Hopton, C.; Lockett, Helen; Madeley, Richard

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“…Cartter et al (1989) note that despite contrary assurances, 'some patients insisted that we had accused their children of faking symptoms and that a "stigma" had been put on their children'. In their investigation of the sudden collapse of over 400 people at a marching band competition in Nottinghamshire, England during 1980, Bebbington et al (1980) observed that' any suggestion of the possibility of a physiological or psychological mechanism was met with cries of outrage from the public who were clearly committed to the concept of an external noxious agent'.…”

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Tarantism, dancing mania and demonopathy: the anthro-political aspects of ‘mass psychogenic illness’

Bartholomew

1994

Psychol. Med.

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SynopsisThis study questions the widely held assumption that the phenomenon known as mass psychogenic illness (MPI) existsper sein nature as a psychiatric disorder. Most MPI studies are problematical, being descriptive, retrospective investigations of specific incidents which conform to a set of pre-existing symptom criteria that are used to determine the presence of collective psychosomatic illness. Diagnoses are based upon subjective, ambiguous categories that reflect stereotypes of female normality which assume the presence of a transcultural disease or disorder entity, underemphasizing or ignoring the significance of episodes as culturally conditioned roles of social action. Examples of this bias include the mislabelling of dancing manias, tarantism and demonopathy in Europe since the Middle Ages as culture-specific variants of MPI. While ‘victims’ are typified as mentally disturbed females possessing abnormal personality characteristics who are exhibiting cathartic reactions to stress, it is argued that episodes may involve normal, rational people who possess unfamiliar conduct codes, world-views and political agendas that differ significantly from those of Western-trained investigators who often judge these illness behaviours independent of their local context and meanings.

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Tarantism, dancing mania and demonopathy: the anthro-political aspects of ‘mass psychogenic illness’

Bartholomew

1994

Psychol. Med.

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“…Zu den Differenzialdiagnosen gehö-ren kardiogene (d. h. rhythmogene) Synkopen, zu denen es ebenfalls eine Reihe von Berichten über Auslösung durch Musik gibt [2,18]. Weiterhin können natür-lich dissoziative Anfälle und Hyperventilationstetanien durch Musik ausgelöst werden und einen musikogenen epileptischen Anfall imitieren.…”

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“…Abb 2. 8 "Magnetisation" durch Franz Anton Mesmer mit der Glasharfe als akustischem Medium und ungeklärten Anfällen der "Magnetisierten" Musikkritiker Nikonov berichtet, der in seinem Berufsleben allmählich immer häufiger Anfälle beim Hören von Musik erlitt, sodass er seinen Beruf aufgeben musste.…”

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Musikogene Epilepsie

Evers

2015

Z. Epileptol.

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“…Mass 'sickness' judged to be psychosomatic in origin is typically viewed as abnormal behavior, paralleling mental disorders. Symptoms commonly involve one or a combination of complaints, and include: dizziness (Colligan and Murphy 1979;Moffat 1982), fainting (Teoh and Tan 1972;Boulougouris et al 1981); stomach pain (Smith and Eastham 1973;Carter et al 1989), nausea (Polk 1974;Small and Borus 1983), twitching (Schuler and Parenton 1943;Dhadphale and Shaikh 1983), malaise (McEvedy and Beard 1970), sore throat and eyes (Levine et al 1974), crying (Davy 1880;Helvie 1968), screaming (Chew 1978;Poon 1982), paralysis (Johnson 1945;Nandi et al 1985), depression (Ikeda 1966;Eastwell 1982), hyperventilation (Parigi 1956;Moss and McEvedy 1966), abnormal body movements (Hugo 1881;Douglass 1944), itching and rash (Maguire 1978;Robinson et al 1984), running (Kagwa 1964), laughing (Rankin and Philip 1963;Muhangi 1973), jumping (Beard 1880;Thornton 1885), states of trance (Phoon 1982;Muluka et al 1985) and possession (Teoh and Yeoh 1973;Teoh et al 1975), hallucinations (Shapiro 1936;Lee and Ackerman 1980), headache (Bebbington et al 1980;Pollock and Clayton 1964), vomiting …”

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Ethnocentricity and the social construction of ‘mass hysteria’

Bartholomew

1990

Cult Med Psych

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This study provides a critical historical review and analysis of the variety of human expressions which have been erroneously labeled under the grandiose category "mass hysteria". It is argued that Western science reductionist approaches to the classification of "mass hysteria" treat it as an entity to be discovered transculturally, and in their self-fulfilling search for universals systematically exclude what does not fit within the autonomous parameters of its Western-biased culture model, exemplifying what Kleinman (1977) terms a "category fallacy." As a result of objectivist methodologies, the etiology of actions labeled as "mass hysteria" is typically viewed as deviant, irrational or abnormal behavior resulting from a malfunctioning 'proper' social order. However, what constitutes 'the' correct social order is a function of a researcher's historical sociocultural and/or scientific milieu. This study reviews the problem, advocating Geertz's (1973) culturally relativistic approach to understanding various cross-cultural behavior that is sensitive to and tolerant of the unique context and milieu of participants. "Mass" or "epidemic hysteria" is viewed as an invention of Western psychiatry and should be abandoned and replaced with the term collective exaggerated emotions. Instead of attempting to 'discover' a neatly packaged, unitary external disease entity, the focus of a meaning-oriented approach emphasizes the deciphering of foreign realities, semantic networks and symbol systems.

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From experience: Epidemic syncope in jazz bands—logistic aspects of an investigation

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Tarantism, dancing mania and demonopathy: the anthro-political aspects of ‘mass psychogenic illness’

Tarantism, dancing mania and demonopathy: the anthro-political aspects of ‘mass psychogenic illness’

Musikogene Epilepsie

Ethnocentricity and the social construction of ‘mass hysteria’

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