måndag 15 november 2010

folie à deux


"Folie à deux, from the French for "a madness shared by two") (or shared psychosis) is apsychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie en famille or even folie à plusieurs ("madness of many"). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as dependency psychotic disorder and induced delusional disorder in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name. The disorder was first conceptualized in 19th century French psychiatry."

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This truly amazes me. I saw a program about it on FBI files♥ a couple of years ago, a girl enchanted, used, brainwashed call it what you want, a boy and then they killed her parent and flew to Paris. Cute lovestory huh?

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