Parental Alienation Syndrome as a Consequence of Paranoid Contagion or Shared Psychosis [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) was proposed by Richard A. Gardner in 1985. It is assumed to occur in some distressing marriage break-ups, when a parent “brainwashes” his children so they reject the other parent in an unjustified way ...
A. Ruiz-Tristan +3 more
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“Folie à deux,” or shared psychosis: A case report [PDF]
European PsychiatryIntroduction “Folie à deux,” or shared psychosis, is a fascinatingpsychiatric phenomenon characterized by the transmission of delusional beliefs and psychotic symptoms from one individual (the “inducer”) to another (the “recipient”) who share a close ...
E. Arroyo Sánchez +2 more
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Genetic investigation of non-affective psychosis and depression as causal risk factors for dementia [PDF]
BMJ Mental HealthBackground Major psychiatric disorders are associated with increased risk of dementia but establishing whether psychiatric disorders causally increase dementia risk is challenging because dementia pathology can precede clinical diagnosis by decades ...
Valentina Escott-Price +3 more
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Shared psychotic disorder in children of parents with untreated schizophrenia: A case series
Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2021 Shared psychotic disorder (folie à deux) is a unique disorder with varied clinical presentation, posing difficulties in management. Parent–child dyads have been described to be commonly affected by this disorder but very few cases from India are ...
Hrishikesh B Nachane
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Folie à deux: contagious mental illness? Report of a clinical case
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Folie à deux is a clinical condition that was first described in 19th century. It is a psychotic disorder in which two closely associated individuals share a similar delusional system.
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Evidence for a Shared Etiological Mechanism of Psychotic Symptoms and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Patients with Psychotic Disorders and Their Siblings. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder in subjects with psychotic disorder is much higher than in the general population. The higher than chance co-occurrence has also been demonstrated at the level of subclinical expression of both phenotypes ...
Marije Swets +6 more
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Delusional parasitosis with folie à deux: A case series
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2015 Delusional parasitosis (DP) is characterized by single hypochondriacal delusion in which patient feels he/she is infested with insects. The authors present a case series of three cases of DP with shared psychotic disorder (folie ΰ deux) in which one ...
Neena Sanjiv Sawant +1 more
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Transdiagnostic structural neuroimaging features in depression and psychosis: A systematic review
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2023 Background: Previous research suggests that there may be similarities in structural brain changes seen in patients with depression and psychosis compared to healthy controls.
Paris Alexandros Lalousis +8 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Many with psychosis experience substantial difficulties forming and maintaining social bonds leading to persistent social alienation and a lack of a sense of membership in a larger community.
Paul H. Lysaker +6 more
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Contemporary Perspectives on Lacanian Theories of Psychosis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 :In contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysis, Verhaeghe’s theory of actualpathology / psychopathology in psychosis and the Millerian idea of ordinary psychosis provide diverging conceptual approaches to psychosis.
Jonathan Douglas Redmond
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