Psychiatry and Psychology

Shared Paranoid Disorder

A condition in which closely related persons, usually in the same family, share the same delusions.

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Abstract

A condition in which closely related persons, usually in the same family, share the same delusions.

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Synonyms

13 entry terms
  • Folie a Deux
  • Paranoid Disorder, Shared
  • Shared Psychotic Disorder
  • Disorder, Shared Paranoid
  • Disorder, Shared Psychotic
  • Disorders, Shared Paranoid
  • Disorders, Shared Psychotic
  • Paranoid Disorders, Shared
  • Psychotic Disorder, Shared
  • Psychotic Disorders, Shared
  • Shared Paranoid Disorders
  • Shared Psychotic Disorders
  • Folie a Trois

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Aspects Covered

31 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

spell FOLIE A DEUX as folie á deux (with accent) in translations

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History Note

81; was FOLIE A DEUX 1968-80

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Previous Indexing

  • Psychotic Disorders (1966-1967)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Shared Paranoid Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012753. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012753
  2. Shared Paranoid Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux
  3. Shared Paranoid Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1435409