The searching sun: the Lyeime Movement--crisis, tragic events and folie à deux in the Papua New Guinea highlands.
An historical crisis movement from the highlands of Papua New Guinea re-examined from a psychiatric point of view raises the possibility that the two leaders suffered from mental disorder. The principal prophet apparently had paranoid schizophrenia. As a middle-aged man he established the cult which spread rapidly in the Enga area in the 1940s at the time of first contact with outsiders. A surviving brother, who had also been an important figure in the movement, suffered a similar illness--an example of shared psychotic disorder or folie à deux.
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D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D009512:New Guinea; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012753:Shared Paranoid Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014857:Warfare