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Folie a Deux (1952)

1952 · Short film · 13 min

Synopsis

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

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Running time
13 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Educational Films, Ephemeral Films

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