Folie à deux

Folie à deux is defined as an identical or similar mental disorder affecting two or more individuals, usually the members of a close family. Two case reports of this condition are presented with a brief review of the literature. Prompt recognition of this condition is an essential step in the manage...

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Autores principales: Suresh Kumar, P.N., Subramanyam, N., Thomas, Biju, Abraham, Abu, Kumar, Kishore
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20814461
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55942
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author Suresh Kumar, P.N.
Subramanyam, N.
Thomas, Biju
Abraham, Abu
Kumar, Kishore
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Subramanyam, N.
Thomas, Biju
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description Folie à deux is defined as an identical or similar mental disorder affecting two or more individuals, usually the members of a close family. Two case reports of this condition are presented with a brief review of the literature. Prompt recognition of this condition is an essential step in the management. The majority of patients with folie à deux require multiple treatments including separation, antipsychotics, individual and group psychotherapy, and family therapy.
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spelling pubmed-29197942010-09-02 Folie à deux Suresh Kumar, P.N. Subramanyam, N. Thomas, Biju Abraham, Abu Kumar, Kishore Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Folie à deux is defined as an identical or similar mental disorder affecting two or more individuals, usually the members of a close family. Two case reports of this condition are presented with a brief review of the literature. Prompt recognition of this condition is an essential step in the management. The majority of patients with folie à deux require multiple treatments including separation, antipsychotics, individual and group psychotherapy, and family therapy. Medknow Publications 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC2919794/ /pubmed/20814461 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55942 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Suresh Kumar, P.N.
Subramanyam, N.
Thomas, Biju
Abraham, Abu
Kumar, Kishore
Folie à deux
title Folie à deux
title_full Folie à deux
title_fullStr Folie à deux
title_full_unstemmed Folie à deux
title_short Folie à deux
title_sort folie à deux
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20814461
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55942
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