Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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fatuous affect

Health care; Psychiatry

The moods of a patient with fatuous affect resemble the moods of a child. This condition is seen in hebephrenic schizophrenia.

folie à deux

Health care; Psychiatry

Also called induced psychosis, folie à deux is a delusional disorder shared by two or more people who are closely related emotionally. One has real psychosis while the symptoms of psychosis are ...

Folie communiquée, or subtype C of folie à deux, occurs when a normal person suffers a contagion of his ideas after resisting them for a long time. Once he acquires these beliefs he maintains them ...

folie imposée

Health care; Psychiatry

Folie imposée, or subtype A of folie a deux, is the most common form in which the dominant person imposes a delusion into a person who was not previously mentally ill. Separation of the two results ...

folie induite

Health care; Psychiatry

In folie induite, or subtype D of folie a deux, a person who is already psychotic adds the delusions of a closely associated person to his own.

folie simultanée

Health care; Psychiatry

In folie simultanée, or subtype B of folie a deux, a delusional system emerges simultaneously and independently in two closely related persons, and the separation of the two would not be beneficial ...

Fregoli's syndrome

Health care; Psychiatry

In Fregoli syndrome, the person feels that a person not known to him previously gets changed to a familiar person or one of his close family members. This is in contrast to Capgras syndrome in which ...