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It’s hard to know what to make of this story — apparently, each year a handful of Japanese women in their 30s are so disappointed when their illusions of Paris as some sort of romantic paradise are shattered by the reality of France’s capital.
Paris Syndrome, as it has long been dubbed, seems to be more like a description of life not matching up to anyone’s ideals, so is this just typical bunkum from the media/psychiatry axis of attention-seeking or am I missing something? The journalist in me says it’s the former.
As Youcef Mahmoudia, cited in Wikipedia, says, Paris Syndrome is “a manifestation of psychopathology related to the voyage, rather than a of syndrome of the traveller.” That seems a lot more realistic, surely?
(Via BBC News)
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