Induced psychosis.
When two or more individuals share delusions and hallucinations, psychotic material has often been transferred to, or induced in, one of the sufferers. A guide to the terminology, aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of induced psychoses is given, together with a description of two cases of folie à deux.
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Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London.
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