psychogenic

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The action she requests includes making sure staff are able to detect and manage psychogenic polydipsia.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2023

The U.N. concluded that the symptoms were the result of mass psychogenic illness, a form of social panic.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2023

No evidence was found to support the suspicions, and the WHO said it appeared to be “mass psychogenic illnesses.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2023

Experts have emphasized that even if the illnesses were psychogenic, that doesn’t mean sufferers are imagining their symptoms.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023

Nevertheless I see no difficulty in assigning to the factor of the periodical rebellion of the ego against the ego ideal a share in both kinds of melancholia, the psychogenic as well as the spontaneous.

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund