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Mass hysteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

R. Bartholomew
R. Bartholomew*
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Department of Psychology and Sociology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia 4811
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 170 , Issue 4 , April 1997 , pp. 387 - 388
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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