Shared psychosis

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Shared psychosis occurs when people acquire a delusion from someone with whom they have a close personal relationship.
Psychosis refers to symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking and speech, and bizarre and inappropriate motor behavior (including catatonia) that indicate loss of contact with reality. (See also Introduction to Schizophrenia and Related Disorders.)
Shared psychosis (previously termed folie