Clance and Imes’s paper outlining this phenomenon stemmed from a discussion with several Oberlin students. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this phenomenon characterized by “an internal experience of intellectual phoniness” which originally was observed in “high achieving women.”
ANSWER: imposter syndrome [or imposter phenomenon; accept impostorism]
[10e] While imposter syndrome is not a recognized mental illness, it shares some common aspects with this group of disorders that includes a “social” variety in which individuals fear interacting with others.
ANSWER: anxiety disorders [or social anxiety disorder]
[10h] Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey have argued that pathologizing “imposter syndrome” connects it to this catch-all diagnosis from the 19th century. Some scholars held that this condition was caused by a “wandering womb.”
ANSWER: female hysteria [or hysterical suffocation]
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