Margaret Carter

Department of Psychiatry, Temple University Hospital Episcopal Campus, Pennsylvania, USA

Publications

• Case Report   
  Folie � Trois: Case Report of a Patient Who Shared Delusions with Her Sister and another Patient in the In-Patient Psychiatric Unit
  Author(s): Margaret Carter, Tyler A. Barreto, Ruby Barghini and Allison Zuckerberg*
  
  Folie à deux is a rare condition in which a single person (often with a psychiatric disorder) develops a delusion that is shared by another person. Folie à trois is when a delusion is shared by three people. This case report documents the unusual case of an individual who shared delusions with two different people simultaneously. This report inspires questions about this person, her delusions, and what made them so believable to others. It is known that development of shared delusions most commonly occurs in relative isolation and disproportionately affects individuals with pre-existing psychiatric comorbidities. Because of these risk factors, delusions in a psychiatric unit may be even more “contagious” than in the general population. To our knowledge, this case report is the first to document a newly developed delusion shared between two unrelated patients .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.3371/CSRP.CMTB.041023

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