title: Commentary on 2 Unusual Cases.
abstract: Two cases of unusual situations are discussed: one involving feigned suicide detected as false only after a comparison of surveillance systems, and one involving monozygotic triplets who all developed psychosis with shared delusions. Although these 2 cases involve presentations most of us will never encounter as clinicians, they nevertheless serve to highlight fundamental questions about the nature of psychopathology. Both cases also have compelling parallels in literature and film.
authors.affiliation: KAHN: Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D003702:Delusions; D006801:Humans; D011599:Psychopathology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013405:Suicide