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Folie à deux. Case report

Olga Józefowicz, Dominik Strzelecki, Maria Krupińska-Kun, Jolanta Rabe-Jabłońska

Affiliacja i adres do korespondencji
PSYCHIATR. PSYCHOL. KLIN. 2011, 11 (3), p. 194-196
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Induced psychotic disorder is a seldom described syndrome of symptoms, defined as the occurrence of delusions shared by two or more people who are in close emotional relationship. One of them exhibits symptoms of primary psychotic disorder, whereas in the other the symptoms are induced and disappear in result of separation from the inducing person. The study was aimed at presentation of a case of a patient with induced psychotic disorders. The presented patient – a captain of a military unit, shared persecutory delusions which originally had occurred in his partner – a woman met through the Internet. She claimed that they were both embroiled in a “spy scandal” involving special services. She created a feeling of danger, claiming that they were all the time under surveillance. She manipulated information and situations so that the patient broke up with his family, lost his job, and suffered from medical and financial consequences. He considered the false image of reality created by his partner as true and he completely subordinated his behaviour to it. During a forensic psychiatric examination the expert psychiatrists presented a diagnosis of adjustment disorders and referred the patient to a medical board. For further diagnosis he was admitted to the Clinic of Affective and Psychotic Disorders, where finally he was diagnosed with induced psychotic disorders.

Słowa kluczowe
induced psychotic disorder, folie à deux, delusions of persecution, shared psychotic disorder, brief psychotic disorder