1. Jerusalem syndrome.
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Bar-El, Yair, Durst, Rimona, Katz, Gregory, Zislin, Josef, Strauss, Ziva, Knobler, Haim Y., Bar-el, Y, Durst, R, Katz, G, Zislin, J, Strauss, Z, and Knobler, H Y
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PSYCHOSES ,PATHOLOGICAL psychology ,PSYCHIATRISTS ,TRAVELERS ,SYNDROMES ,CHRISTIAN shrines ,SACRED space - Abstract
Background: Jerusalem's psychiatrists expect to encounter, as the millennium approaches, an ever-increasing number of tourists who, upon arriving in Jerusalem, may suffer psychotic decompensation.Aims: To describe the Jerusalem syndrome as a unique acute psychotic state.Method: This analysis is based on accumulated clinical experience and phenomenological data consisting of cultural and religious perspectives.Results: Three main categories of the syndrome are identified and described, with special focus on the category pertaining to spontaneous manifestations, unconfounded by previous psychotic history or psychopathology.Conclusions: The discrete form of the Jerusalem syndrome is related to religious excitement induced by proximity to the holy places of Jerusalem, and is indicated by seven characteristic sequential stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2000
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