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Folie à Trois among Two Soviet-Jewish Immigrant Families to Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Shmuel Maizel ,
Haim Y. Knobler  and
Ruth Herbstein
Shmuel Maizel*
Affiliation:
Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital, Hebrew University Medical School, Doar Na Shimshon, Jerusalem 99790, Israel
Haim Y. Knobler
Affiliation:
Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital
Ruth Herbstein
Affiliation:
Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital
*
∗Correspondence
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In two cases of folie à trois, affecting two Soviet-Jewish families who emigrated to Israel, both elderly parents in both cases shared the paranoid delusional beliefs of an only child. Severe trauma in the past and social maladjustment in the present may be among the precipitating factors for the development of the shared paranoid disorder.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 2 , August 1990 , pp. 290 - 292
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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