Folie a Deux Versus Genetically Driven Delusional Disorder: Case Reports and Nosological Considerations

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-160

  Reif, Andreas ^a   Pfuhlmann, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; DELUSION; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SHARED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER;

EID: 1542513946     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2003.09.004     Document Type: Article

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