title: [Folie à deux - mental infection or individual psychosis].
abstract: The phenomenon of folie à deux has been a topical issue in psychiatry for more than a century. Mainly, genetic and psychodynamic factors are discussed controversially in terms of their relevance to the etiology of folie à deux. In this paper, effort is taken to reconceive the topic applying the criteria of a differentiated psychopathological classification. Based on the literature and on two own cases, we try to elaborate characteristical psychopathological features of folie à deux patients. We hypothesize that at least a substantial fraction could be classified as "folie simultanée" when Leonhard's criteria of the affect-laden paraphrenia are considered.
authors: Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Universität Würzburg (Direktor: Prof. Dr. J. Deckert).
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authors: Pfuhlmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012753:Shared Paranoid Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy