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A Relapsing Folie à Trois

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

F. P. Fernando  and
M. Frieze
M. Frieze*
Affiliation:
Department of Family Psychiatry, St. James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF
*
∗Correspondence
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Summary

A case of folie à trois affecting a mother and her children is described. The subjects fully recovered with treatment, but all relapsed two months later, when the primary subject discontinued medication.

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 146 , Issue 3 , March 1985 , pp. 315 - 316
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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