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  • Jerusalem syndrome

  • Yair Bar-El, Rimona Durst, Gregory Katz, Josef Zislin, Ziva Strauss, Haim Y. Knobler
  • Journal:
    The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 176 / Issue 1 / January 2000
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 86-90
    Print publication:
    January 2000
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  • 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.