Suicide terrorism: a case of folie à plusieurs?

Case report of Folie à Trois

SUMMARY A 50-year-old factory worker was admitted to hospital following an altercation with fellow workers. He reported a 25-year history of grandiose delusions related to being a special agent for the Taiwanese and US governments (for which he had been paid 100 million dollars) and paranoid delusions related to persecution by China's national security agencies. After detailed assessment by sev...

Infanticide in a case of folie à deux.

We report a case of infanticide of a 4-month-old infant boy by starvation and dehydration. The parents were both charged with murder. The mother suffered from schizoaffective disorder, and the father was diagnosedwith shared psychotic disorder (folie à deux) by forensic assessment (T.R.). We describe the couple’s history, including a summary of their delusional beliefs, based on police reports,...

Folie à Trois à Lubumbashi: à propos d’un cas

Le trouble psychotique partagé est une entité psychiatrique rare caractérisée par la transmission des idées délirantes d’un patient dit "inducteur", à un autre dit "induit", tous vivant en association proche, dans un milieu clos et isolé, partageant des idées délirantes sur le même thème. Nous vous rapportons un cas clinique de "folie à trois" mettant en jeu un délire de persécution à mécanisme...

Fonctions-spline homogènes à plusieurs variables

Pseudocyesis associated with folie à deux.

DeMontyel (1881) divided folie a deux into three subgroups: fo!ie simu!tanée, in which there is the coincidental, simultaneousbutindependent appearance of psychotic symptoms in two family members who are predisposed to a psychosis and who are living together; bIle communiquée,in which two persons who are at risk from developing a psychosis become psychotic, but each subject adopts one or more...