A. Berti, C. Maberino - Vol. 7, Settembre 2001, num.3
Testo Bibliografia
Summary Riassunto Indice
Allarme "mucca pazza":
un fraintendimento nevrotico di un avvenimento attuale ovvero la Sindrome
di Welles
"Mad cow": a neurotic misunderstanding
of a current event or the Welles Syndrome
The "Mad Cow" and, in general, the unsure food were indicated as the
fears of the third millennium and they cause several different reactions. Actually
when media spread news so fast, the amplification crosses the loss of certitudes
and the fragility of our life. It reminds us of what described by Orson Welles,
i.e. a misunderstanding that generated a mass phenomenon of hyperemotionality
very similar to hysteria. The Mad Cow has two different psychopathological effects:
a pathogenetic one, that causes anxiety and avoiding, and a pathoplastic one
that induces specific contents in psychopathic patients. So we are going to
see different pathologies, from real anguish, to phobias or obsessions, until
a delusion.
