Editing Jerusalem syndrome (section)

==History==
[[File:Jerusalem Dominus flevit BW 1.JPG|thumb|View of Jerusalem]]
Jerusalem syndrome has previously been regarded as a form of [[hysteria]], referred to as "{{lang|fr|fièvre Jérusalemienne}}".<ref>Elon, Amos.''Jerusalem, City of Mirrors''. Little, Brown, 1989, p. 147. {{ISBN|978-0-316-23388-0}}</ref> It was first clinically described in the 1930s by Jerusalem [[psychiatrist]] Heinz Hermann, one of the founders of modern psychiatric research in [[Israel]].<ref>[http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=374 The Jerusalem Syndrome in Biblical Archaeology] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114194244/http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=374 |date=2012-01-14 }}.</ref>  Whether or not these behaviors specifically arise from visiting Jerusalem is debated, as similar behaviors have been noted at other places of religious and historical importance such as [[Mecca]] and [[Rome]] (see [[Stendhal syndrome]]). It is known that cases of the syndrome had already been observed during the [[Middle Ages]], since it was described in the itinerary of [[Felix Fabri]] and the biography of [[Margery Kempe]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} Other cases were described in the vast literature of visitors to Jerusalem during the 19th century.

Bar-El et al. suggested that at the approach of the year 2000, large numbers of otherwise normal visitors might be affected by a combination of their presence in Jerusalem and the religious significance of the millennium, causing a massive increase in the numbers of Jerusalem syndrome admissions to hospital. Despite a slight increase in tourist hospitalisations with the rise in total tourism to Jerusalem during the year 2000, the feared epidemic of Jerusalem syndrome never materialised.<ref name="Bar-El" />