Folie à famille: a family therapist's perspective.
Over the last century there have been reports in the psychiatric journals of an unusual disorder, folie à famille, yet the syndrome has been neglected by family theorists. In this paper the literature on delusions shared by families is examined from the perspective of a family therapist. The role the disorder plays in defining the continuum of functional/dysfunctional shared familial beliefs is described, and a case example demonstrating that folie à famille may be underreported is presented.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003702:Delusions; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012753:Shared Paranoid Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D012930:Social Dominance; D012934:Social Isolation