psychogenic

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FND is a complex condition; previously known as psychosomatic or psychogenic illness, it describes physical symptoms with a psychological root.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

The U.N. concluded that the symptoms were the result of mass psychogenic illness, a form of social panic.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2023

Then, the World Health Organization wrote about so-called “mass psychogenic illnesses” affecting hundreds of girls in schools across the country.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2023

Blinken has long doubted that personnel are suffering from mass hysteria or some psychogenic event, officials have said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023

In the psychogenic kind the ego would be incited to rebellion by ill-treatment on the part of its ideal—an ill-treatment which it encounters when there has been identification with a rejected object.

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund