History
'These "brief reactive psychoses", as they are now called, were once termed "hysterical psychoses"'. Otto Fenichel noted that 'in World War II there were reported many more schizophrenic or schizoid episodes of short duration that ended spontaneously than in World War I', following traumatic shocks: he considered in such cases that 'enough preconscious attention remains to re-establish the contact with reality as soon as it becomes bearable again'.
'A violent form of this condition known as amok occurs in Malaysia'.
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