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Socio-Clinical Substrates of Folie à Deux

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Som Datta Soni  and
Gerald Joseph Rockley
Som Datta Soni
Affiliation:
Prestwich Hospital, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 7BL
Gerald Joseph Rockley
Affiliation:
Prestwich Hospital, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 7BL
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Folie à deux, the psychosis of association, has been defined as ‘the transference of delusional ideas and/or abnormal behaviour from one person to one or more individuals who have been in close association with the primary affected person’ (8). At least three conditions have been regarded as pre-requisite for its diagnosis: (a) definite evidence that the partners have been intimately associated, (b) identical content of the delusional ideas in both the patients, and (c) unequivocal evidence that the partners share, support and accept each other's delusions (7).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 586 , September 1974 , pp. 230 - 235
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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