psychogenic
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Mr. Jay reports both sides of the controversy: Essentially, the military suspects a real attack, while the medical establishment generally diagnoses psychogenic illness, one with no physical cause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"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 the WHO said it appeared to be “mass psychogenic illnesses.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 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 Sigmund Freud
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