psychogenic

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"By saying we all have psychogenic itching to some degree, we normalise it," she adds.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 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 WHO said it appeared to be a “mass psychogenic illness.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2023

Spratlen had held a teleconference with sufferers who asked about the FBI study that determined that the symptoms were psychogenic.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023

In the psychogenic kind the ego would be incited to rebellion by ill-treatment on the part of its ideal—an ill-treatment which it encounters when there has been identification with a rejected object.

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