Elizabeth Feigon is a Boston psychiatrist and co-author of Recovered Memory Therapy: Profession at a Turning Point
Therapeutic Folie-a-Deux
1 May 1996
Folie-a-deux can be defined as a paranoid disorder in which the same delusion is shared by two (or more) persons. The delusion is thought to be transmitted from a dominant but paranoid person to his or her dependent intimate(s), and the latter may recover "normal" reality testing after separation from the former.