Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The nosological significance of Folie à Deux: a review of the literature. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Review Open Access The nosological significance of Folie à Deux a review of the literature Danilo Arnone 1 2 Anish Patel3 and Giles Ming-YeeTan4 Address Department of Psychiatry Warneford Hospital Oxford UK 2Division of Mental Health St George s University of London London UK 3Department of Psychiatry West Sussex Health and Social Care NHS Trust Worthing UK and 4Department of Psychiatry University of Southampton Southampton UK Email Danilo Arnone - Anish Patel - anishp20@ Giles Ming-Yee Tan - gilestan@ Corresponding author Published 08 August 2006 Received 24 March 2006 Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5 11 doi 1744-859X-5-1 1 Accepted 08 August 2006 This article is available from http content 5 1 11 2006 Arnone et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Folie à Deux is a rare syndrome that has attracted much clinical attention. There is increasing doubt over the essence of the condition and the validity of the original description such that it remains an elusive entity difficult to define. Method We conducted a systematic review of the literature of all cases reporting the phenomenon of Folie à Deux from the years 1993-2005. Results 64 cases were identified of which 42 met the inclusion criteria. The diagnoses in the primary and secondary were more heterogeneous than current diagnostic criteria suggest. There exists a high degree of similarity between the primary and secondary in terms of susceptibility to psychiatric illness family and past psychiatric history than previously thought. Conclusion Folie à Deux can occur in many situations outside the .
