Article move To the contributor who moved the article and asked for one source which used this terminology I did a quick hunt for a few If you d like I could find more All these use the terminology in the same context This is the commonly accepted terminology It would be nice if you could put things back together like they re supposed to be thanks Title Sex abuse hysteria Author Richard A Gardner Edition 2 illustrated Publisher Creative Therapeutics 1991 also film of the same name Cited by 66 sources according to Google Scholar Title Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act for Dealing with Sex Abuse Hysteria Journal Issues in Child Abuse Accusations Author RA Gardner Year IPT Forensics 1993 Mass Hysteria in Oude Pekela Benjamin Rossen Vol 1 No 1 1989 The Phenomenon of Child Sexual Abuse Hysteria as a Social Syndrome A New Kind of Expert Testimony Lawrence D Spiegel Vol 2 No 1 1990 News Media Coverage and National Hysteria Volume 7 1995 Hysteria spreads Volume 7 1995 A Canadian Perspective on Child Sexual Abuse Accusations in the Gender War Brian Hindmarch Vol 3 1991 This phenomenon must be understood when examining the present child sexual abuse hysteria Chapter Sex Abuse Hysteria 9 Title Everyday irrationality how pseudo scientists lunatics and the rest of us systematically fail to think rationally Author Robyn M Dawes Edition Illustrated Publisher Westview Press 2002 Title Making monsters false memories psychotherapy and sexual hysteria Authors Richard Ofshe Ethan Watters Publisher Charles Scribner s 1994 Original from the University of Michigan Title Witch Hunt A True Story of Social Hysteria and Abused Justice Positive Review Positive Review Author Kathryn Lyon Publisher Avon Books 1998 Title Threatened Children Rhetoric and Concern About Child Victims Positive Review Positive Review Positive Review Author Joel Best Publisher University of Chicago Press 1990 Quote Dr Best blames much of America s hysteria on the media particularly the ten second sound bites Title The abuse of innocence the McMartin Preschool trial Notable trials library Authors Paul Eberle Shirley Eberle Edition illustrated braille Publisher Prometheus Books 1993 Original from the University of Michigan Quote The result was mass hysteria unlike anything experienced in America in decades