What Is That Actually in Your Book?

The author uses the term 'mass formation psychosis' to describe a group of people who are losing their rational faculties and acting as a herd. Many parents were refusing to bring their children to see me, frightened they or their children would catch a fatal disease simply by coming to my office. I knew one man whose wife insisted on taking off her clothes whenever she returned home and throwing them in the drier for sterilization. That is insanity. Previously normal appearing individuals had clearly lost their minds worse. These behaviors were not limited to a handful of people. Much of the nation has disconnected from basic reality.