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

Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci. 1996;33(4):260-4.

Abstract

We present a case of folie à deux in immigrants, for whom the process of immigration changed the intrafamilial dependencies. Folie à deux only appeared in the previously dominant member once she became the dependent member. Follow-up showed resolution of the folie à deux with no change in the recent reversal of roles.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Delusions / psychology
  • Dependency, Psychological*
  • Dominance-Subordination
  • Emigration and Immigration*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Israel
  • Middle Aged
  • Mother-Child Relations*
  • Role*
  • Schizophrenia, Paranoid / psychology
  • Shared Paranoid Disorder / psychology*
  • USSR / ethnology