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Folie à Trois: A Clinical Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2018

Sulammith Wolff
Sulammith Wolff*
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From the Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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The following case of Folie à Trois, in which a married couple and the husband's brother shared a system of paranoid delusions, is being reported firstly because of the rarity of the condition, and secondly because it presents several unique features which it is hoped will shed further light on the nature of induced psychosis.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 431 , April 1957 , pp. 355 - 363
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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