This week Saoirse Siné talks mass hysteria, mental disciple and fainting school children with actor Denny Redmond.

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Episode Source Material

"Mass Hysteria in Schools: A Worldwide History Since 1566"

by Robert E. Bartholomew, Bob Rickard

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322607

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/08/21/sandy

https://commonplacefacts.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/the-true-tale-of-the-meowing-nuns-with-biting-issues/

https://archive.org/details/epidemicsofmiddl1844heck/page/n5/mode/2up

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3575566/

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/10-strangest-mass-hysterias.htm

https://www.britannica.com/science/mental-discipline-theory

https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/1466/thesis_fulltext.pdf;jsessionid=DF22F6981869287D99A3BD460FE23D1F?sequence=1

https://esoterx.com/2015/08/05/bad-habits-the-15th-century-nun-biting-mania/

https://practicalpie.com/edward-thorndike/

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