“Folie à trois”, when the madness exceed one person
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Foliè a deux, folie à trois, shared psychotic disorderAbstract
We report the case of a 16 year old man whose mother and her partner have transfer delusional ideas; they suffer a “folie à trois” or shared psychotic disorder. It is a rare illness due to the limited help searching of the members and the scarcity evaluation of families with psychotic members. The main treatment is the separation, the teenager was hospitalized in a child and adolescence psychiatry unit, and afterwards a multidisciplinary approach of mental health and social services was done.
Nowadays, the etiology of this entity is a challenge, because of lacking of biological markers and the explanations of psychologycal and enviromental mechanisms.
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