article_snippet.sent: A study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, noted that since 1980, Jerusalem's psychiatrists had encountered an ever-increasing number of tourists who, upon arriving in the city 'suffer psychotic decompensation'.
article_snippet.sent: Tourist guides aware of Jerusalem syndrome and of the significance of such declarations may at this point refer the tourist to our institution for psychiatric evaluation in an attempt to pre-empt the subsequent stages of Jerusalem syndrome.
article_snippet.sent: Manifestations of this type serve as a warning to hotel personnel and tourist guides, who should then attempt to have the tourist taken for professional treatment.
article_snippet.sent: As a result of noting 'the consistently high incidence of this phenomenon', a decision was taken to channel all cases to one central facility - the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Centre.
article_snippet.sent: There patients received psychological counselling, psychiatric intervention and, if deemed necessary, admission to hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Over a 13-year period, from 1980 to 1993, 1,200 tourists with severe mental illness invoked by Jerusalem, were referred to the facility.
article_snippet.sent: Of 1,200 tourists with severe mental illness invoked by Jerusalem, 470 were admitted to hospital.
article_snippet.sent: On average, the study found 100 such tourists were seen by experts annually, with 40 a year requiring admission to hospital.
article_snippet.sent: The first included individuals already diagnosed as having a mental health illness before visiting Israel.
article_snippet.sent: But he actions instigated a commotion, which resulted in he being admitted to the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Centre.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Alan Manevitz, of New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, told LiveScience LiveScience believes the condition may happen when a person who is at risk of psychosis experiences the stress of travelling to another country. '