Interesting Shares

Two takes on this:

1. Did Jesus originally also had Jerusalem syndrome? During his time Jerusalem was also a strong place of religious symbolism. So it's fair to hypothesize he felt ill with a psychosis.

2. The article states that the main take (people spontaneously show a psychosis without any psychiatric history) is disputed.

In a 2000 article in the British Journal of Psychiatry, Bar-El et al. claim to have identified and described a specific syndrome which emerges in tourists with no previous psychiatric history.[1] However, this claim has been disputed by M. Kalian and E. Witztum.[2][3] Kalian and Witztum stressed that nearly all of the tourists who demonstrated the described behaviours were mentally ill prior to their arrival in Jerusalem. They further noted that, of the small proportion of tourists alleged to have exhibited spontaneous psychosis after arrival in Jerusalem, Bar-El et al. had presented no evidence that the tourists had been well prior to their arrival in the city.