A fad was prevalent in southern Italy and northern Europe that was believed to be caused by being bitten by a tarantula.

This fad exposed children to sexual and satanic abuse and resembled the Salem witch trials also causing therapists to be called heros.

Sigmund Freud coined this term to describe the vulnerable influence that tied patients to their doctors.

This was the first media-driven fad in history that made people fear the “undead.”

A fad that described a person’s body, thoughts, feelings and behaviors were taken over by evil and must use extreme measure to purge the ailment.

Patients that exhibited neurological symptoms that were inappropriate considering the distribution of the nervous symptom (i.e paralysis, sensory loss, speech loss or alteration, convulsions, etc.) were diagnosed with this psychiatric fad.

Visions, fainting, twitching, loss of appetite, soreness, and swelling are all symptoms of this fad?

Believed that neurasthenia and the energy depletion was caused by a depleted libido and treatment would entail less masturbation or excessive intercourse.

In 1774 this novel romanticed suicide creating a new fad that lead to many imatative suicides.

This fad prompted the Center for Disease Control to create a set of guidelines on media reporting.