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Folie à deux by two'], also known as shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder , is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief, and sometimes hallucinations, are transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à... trois or quatre ; and further, folie en famille or even folie à plusieurs.
The disorder was first conceptualized in 19th-century French psychiatry by Charles Lasègue and Jules Falret and is also known as Lasègue–Falret syndrome.
Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder and induced delusional disorder , although the research literature largely uses the original name.
This disorder is not in the current DSM , which considers the criteria to be insufficient or inadequate. DSM-5 does not consider Shared Psychotic Disorder as a separate entity, but rather, the physician should classify it as "Delusional Disorder" or in the "Other Specified Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorder".