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Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: speedy moved; uncontroversial. NW (Talk) 19:41, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mass Psychogenic Illness → Mass psychogenic illness –

Per WP:CAPS and WP:TITLE: this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. In addition, WP:MOS says that a compound item should not be upper-cased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Matches the formatting of related article titles. $Tony (talk)$ 09:02, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I agree: this is a generic term. Noetica^Tea? 02:40, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Obsolete terminology[edit]

This page uses a point of view and a set of terms, such as "hysteria," and "nervous system disturbance" which may be obsolete. It may need to be rewritten from a more objective point of view. Dratman (talk) 14:40, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mass hysteria is the most common term for this phenomenon. To such degree that the word 'hysteria' in modern contexts almost always has a connotation involving mass numbers of people, and the original meaning of the word is all but, if not already, obsolete. Firejuggler86 (talk) 02:57, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the Weir reference[edit]

I fixed the dead link, but the phrase "preponderance of female victims" oft-quoted in the article appears to be originally cited from the following article:

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/180/4/300.full

I might mess around and change this later (to be a more comprehensive reference), but can't right now, so if someone else would like to that would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.37.199.151 (talk) 11:41, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gender[edit]

Should the article not mention that mass psychogenic illness predominantly affects women? In particularly teenage girls. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.29.42.19 (talk) 16:54, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I remember a particular incidence in Thailand probably dyring late 1950's. Newspapers reported a rapid outbreaks of boys and men suddenly finding their penises to be "permanently shrunk". The symptom was painless and was witnessed and photographed. It affected largely the north-eastern part if the country which was rural and very poor. It made panic causing headlines for several weeks. The health department came out to explain that the phenomenon was a mass psychogenic in origin and probably linked to some stress issues experienced in the communities. It was a male gender specific phenomenon. 2403:6200:8853:2BCD:F56F:8688:6BE4:D6E6 (talk) 02:00, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not the place for original research and hunch-ideas, hombres. You need either legit scientific citations or its really a non-starter Duckmonster (talk) 13:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

it should. and it should also mention the most recent mass psychogenic illness in the typical target population: sudden exponential increase in requests by healthy pubescent girls for body modification surgery. GRoorda (talk) 16:55, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not without very reliable sources. (Also, new stuff goes to the bottom.) --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:27, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unscientific[edit]

The article fails to note that MPI is not a recognised disorder in any field of medicine. Nor does it cite the extensive criticisms of MPI spanning over a century. Please place this article in the pseudoscience section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.100.55.130 (talk) 04:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Got a reliable source that talks about this? Preferably a review article in a medical journal? That's usually the first step to making these types of changes to Wikipedia articles. –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:04, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mass Phsychogenic Illness (MPI - Anosognosia as a result of MFP/MPP/Stockholm) or Mass Formation Psychosis (MFP - Cults/Mass Hysteria leading to Mobbing) or Mass Polarization Psychosis (MPP - Larger Competing MFO Groups) are all in the same line of cult and or hostage defense research, they are recognized in many places as being related under a different title as Stockholm Syndrome and as a result Anosognosia . –Something Positive (talk) 09:57, 3 January 2022 (PST) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:601:CA80:B540:C953:B0F1:7CA5:55F3 (talk)

The article already states that 'It is not well understood and its causes are uncertain' and 'The DSM-IV-TR does not have specific diagnosis for this condition'. There is no scientific evidence to back up this diagnosis. That makes it pseudoscience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.228.129.52 (talk) 10:15, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC543940/

The article doesn't call it a diagnosis. It's simply an observed phenomenon. It's not attempting to explain anything, and therefore is not a pseudoscience. 108.26.253.243 (talk) 03:37, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: LLIB 1115 - Intro to Information Research[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 11 January 2022 and 6 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): JimEagle23 (article contribs).

Malays?[edit]

@BorgQueen, I noticed here that you reverted this edit by an IP user which changed "malays" to "males". Wouldn't "males" be the correct word to use in that paragraph? Deauthorized. ^(talk) 20:55, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, it must have been a mistake. Reverted myself. --BorgQueen (talk) 21:00, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see. Thanks either way. Deauthorized. ^(talk) 21:01, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New source : Pokemon[edit]

Hi folks,

I think this source and its subject should be included in the article.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/16/pokemon-explosion-tv-japan-children-hospital

MonsieurD (talk) 14:21, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]