folie a deux
SHARED PSYCHOSIS, A PSYCHIATRIC SYNDROME IN WHICH SYMPTOMS OF A DELUSIONAL BELIEF ARE TRANSMITTED FROM ONE INDIVIDUAL TO ANOTHER
Folie a deux; Induced delusional disorder; Folie à famille; Folie a famille; Folie à trois; Folie à quatre; Folie imposée; Folie simultanée; Folie en famille; Folie à plusieurs; Shared psychotic disorder; Folie simultanee; Folie imposee; Folie a quatre; Folie a trois; Folie a plusieurs; Follie a deux; Madness shared by two; Foile a deux; Folie a Duex; Folie a Deux; Shared paranoid disorder; Folie à Deux; Shared hallucination; Shared psychosis; Falle a deux; A Madness Shared by Two; Lasègue-Falret Syndrome; Lasègue-Falret syndrome; Shared Psychotic Disorder; Shared delusional disorder; Induced paranoid disorder; Induced psychotic disorder; Mass psychosis; Madness for two
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¦ noun (plural folies a deux) delusion or mental illness shared by two people in close association.
Origin
Fr., lit. 'shared madness'.