‘FOLIE A DEUX’: (A Case Report from Kenya)

The author presents the first case report of folie a deux from Saharan Africa. The clinical presentation of this disorder in Africa does not significantly differ from those reported elsewhere. But cultural factors like superstitions and witchcraft play an important role in the management of these pa...

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Autor principal: Dhadphale, Manohar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1981
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22065665
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description The author presents the first case report of folie a deux from Saharan Africa. The clinical presentation of this disorder in Africa does not significantly differ from those reported elsewhere. But cultural factors like superstitions and witchcraft play an important role in the management of these patients. In the author's view, cooperation with the traditional healer with simultaneous administration of modern drugs may be the ideal way to treat such patients.
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spelling pubmed-30131962011-11-06 ‘FOLIE A DEUX’: (A Case Report from Kenya) Dhadphale, Manohar Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The author presents the first case report of folie a deux from Saharan Africa. The clinical presentation of this disorder in Africa does not significantly differ from those reported elsewhere. But cultural factors like superstitions and witchcraft play an important role in the management of these patients. In the author's view, cooperation with the traditional healer with simultaneous administration of modern drugs may be the ideal way to treat such patients. Medknow Publications 1981 /pmc/articles/PMC3013196/ /pubmed/22065665 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full ‘FOLIE A DEUX’: (A Case Report from Kenya)
title_fullStr ‘FOLIE A DEUX’: (A Case Report from Kenya)
title_full_unstemmed ‘FOLIE A DEUX’: (A Case Report from Kenya)
title_short ‘FOLIE A DEUX’: (A Case Report from Kenya)
title_sort ‘folie a deux’: (a case report from kenya)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22065665
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