A case of folie à deux.
- 1 July 1949
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Vol. 44 (3) , 402-410
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0059294
Abstract
Clinical histories are presented for an elderly married couple committed to a hospital as paranoid schizophrenics, and partially cured. The wife's paranoid delusions were long ignored or resisted by the husband until he was unoccupied and confronted with seemingly inescapable situations. Rorschach records corroborate the clinical history in portraying the wife as the fanciful, unbalanced leader, and the husband as the constricted, weak-willed recipient of suggestions. It is suggested that folie à deux involves this complementary relationship. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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