Folie a Deux

Series: Mental Symptoms Series

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1951

Creator: Natl Film Board Of Canada

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Writer and director, Robert AndersonDemonstrates the symptoms in one of the less common forms of mental disease, folie à deux or induced insanity. Presents two patients, mother and daughter, explaining that the psychosis developed first in the daughter and was then communicated to the mother. The daughter expresses a number of grandiose delusions and delusions of persecution, which ideas the mother accepts as reality. For medical profession and allied scientific groups

Complete Record: Writer and director, Robert Anderson Demonstrates the symptoms in one of the less common forms of mental disease, folie à deux or induced insanity. Presents two patients, mother and daughter, explaining that the psychosis developed first in the daughter and was then communicated to the mother. The daughter expresses a number of grandiose delusions and delusions of persecution, which ideas the mother accepts as reality. For medical profession and allied scientific groups