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Categories: Hallucinations, Delusional disorders, Psychopathological syndromes, Articles with short description, Mass psychogenic illness
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folie a deux  folie à deux  induced psychotic disorder  Lasègue-Falret syndrome  A Madness Shared by Two
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The simultaneous occurrence of symptoms of a mental disorder (as delusions) in two persons who are closely related (as siblings or man and wife) WordNet 3.0
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The simultaneous occurrence of symptoms of a mental disorder (as delusions) in two persons who are closely related (as siblings or man and wife) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Folie à deux, also known as shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder, is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief, and sometimes hallucinations, are transmitted from one individual to another. Wikipedia
Rare psychiatric syndrome Wikipedia Disambiguation
Rare psychiatric syndrome shared by two people. Wikipedia Disambiguation
A rare syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one person to another. Wiktionary