Pronounced: DEH-me-urge, noun
Notes: Not what I thought
Yesterday’s phrase
The phrase Jerusalem syndrome is “a phenomenon in which a visitor to a holy place suffers from religious psychosis, such as believing himself or herself to be a messiah”.
First usage
Surprisingly, our phrase came into English in the 1980s
Background / Comments
The phenomenon described in the definition was first described by the psychiatrist Heinz Herman in the Israel city Jerusalem.
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