Cancer and folie à deux: Case report, treatment, and implications

Cancer Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 290-294

  Hartman, Teresita Sanjurjo ^a   Weitzner, Michael A ^a   Santana, Carlos ^b   Devine, Charles ^b   Grendys, Edward ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Folie deux; Mental capacity; Shared decision making; Shared psychotic disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER; CASE REPORT; COMPETENCE; DELUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PSYCHOSIS; RELIGION; SPOUSE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RELIGION; SHARED PARANOID DISORDER; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034757580     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5394.2001.96006.x     Document Type: Article

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