title: Shared or induced obsessive compulsive disorder: Is it a reality?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Shared or induced obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is not yet a distinct diagnosis in classification of psychiatric disorders. In fact, though recognized as a diagnostic category, shared or induced psychotic disorders are rare and most of the literature is based on the case reports.
  
  
  METHODS
  We are reporting three case studies manifested with shared or induced OCD (cases with obsessive symptoms that were shared from the primary case in their family).
  
  
  RESULTS
  All the cases were treated considering shared or induced OCD as psychopathology. Response to treatment modalities in first and second case and poor response to treatment in third case is suggestive of shared or induced OCD as a distinct entity. It is different from shared psychosis in many ways.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Shared or induced OCD is a distinct diagnosis. Greater awareness about this entity among mental health professionals is needed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: V C
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Kirpekar
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gawande
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tadke
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Bhave
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Faye
keywords: Induced obsessive compulsive disorder; obsessive compulsive disorder; shared obsessive compulsive disorder