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Mazlinda Mahmood
New Straits Times
03-29-2007
Mass hysteria? Blame it on stress, anxiety and spirits
Byline: Mazlinda Mahmood
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section

KUALA LUMPUR: Stress, anxiety, dissociation and the supernatural.

These are cited as causes of mass hysteria.
Hospital Bahagia Tanjung Rambutan director and senior consultant psychiatrist Dr Suarn Singh said hysteria was caused by dissociation.

Dissociation is the detachment of a group of mental processes from the victim's main body of consciousness, which results in hysteria.

Another psychiatrist, who declined to be named, ...

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