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Hysteria is a very unique and abnormal mental disease. What makes it so interesting is that it causes physical symptoms that someone would not normally experience. “Mental conflicts are unconsciously converted to symptoms that appear to be physical, but for which no organic cause is found”(Hysteria 1). One major outburst of hysteria occurred in 1692, resulting in the deaths of twenty-four innocent lives. “By ....
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.... between the authorities and the residents, as well as inadequate healthy recreational outlets”(Hayes 1). All these issues are things that if performed, can help prevent or calm an outbreak of mass hysteria.
In the Salem Witch Trials, the “existing difficulties” that led up to the witchcraft theory were ordinary stresses of seventeenth century life in Massachusetts. These include “a strong belief in the devil, factions among Salem Village fanatics and rivalry wi ....
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