Daughter-mother folie àdeux: immigration as a trigger for role reversal and the development of folie àdeux

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 260-264

  Lerner, Vladimir ^a   Greenberg, David ^a   Bergman, Josef ^a  

^a MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DELUSION; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ROLE PLAYING; SHARED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; USSR;

ADULT; DELUSIONS; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; ROLE; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; SHARED PARANOID DISORDER; USSR;

EID: 0030347833     PISSN: 03337308     EISSN: 26172402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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